[Elecraft] Digimodes what am I missing?

[F5vjc]

Lots of very interesting and wise responses, thank you all.

It seems I am not alone :)

73, Denis F5VJC





On 21 March 2014 13:44, K5HM <k5hm.ron at gmail.com> wrote:

> I guess everyone is entitled to pursue the hobby the way they wish. The
> fact
> that it's a digital mode or CW really has nothing to do with it. You can
> hear the same canned and non-conversation exchanges on CW or SSB.  I know
> CW
> operators that don't own a key. For them it's just another digital mode.
> They use the same canned macros we see in RTTY or PSK.
>
> Today's hams live in a world filled with text messages and Twitter. To
> them,
> CW might just as well be another form of texting.  It's no wonder they
> can't
> have conversations with each other.
>
> Mastering the technology is a big part of what fascinates me about ham
> radio.  For me, digital modes are a part of the merging of two worlds in
> which I grew up and, which grew up with me.  Radio and automation.
>
> I like trying new stuff. It's one of the reasons I chose the K3.  After
> almost a year of ownership, I'm still learning about what this radio can
> do.
>
>
> 73,
> Ron, K5HM
> k5hm.ron at gmail.com
> www.qrz.com/db/k5hm
> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of WILLIS COOKE
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 8:31 PM
> To: F5vjc; Elecraft Reflector
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Digimodes what am I missing?
>
> I feel the same way Denis.  I guess when I finish Honor Roll and Challenge
> 3000 maybe I will get back to it, but I am old and the younger folks don't
> seem to get the charge from CW that I do.  To me, even when you talk, digi
> is too much like email!
>
> Willis 'Cookie' Cooke, TDXS DX Chairman
> K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: F5vjc <foxfive.vjc at gmail.com>
> To: Elecraft Reflector <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 5:56 PM
> Subject: [Elecraft] Digimodes what am I missing?
>
>
> Is it me, but what is the attraction to the  Digimodes?
>
> I can and do understand the achievement to get a new mode working, which is
> the only satisfaction that I can find.
>
> Why?
>
> Having succeeded in getting any Digimode working the only  traffic I see
> are canned messages and brag dialogues of no great interest.
> All rather boring and impersonal.
> What PC, how much memory, what operating system ad nausea.
>
> Yes I operate CW and the rubber stamp and the DX QSO are very familiar to
> me but at least it's a skill to send and receive CW.
>
> I am not knocking the Digimodes I hope but would like to know,  are there
> any real keyboard to keyboard interesting QSO/s to be found,  and if so
> where?
>
> 73, F5VJC
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