[Elecraft] Paper Logs (was Audio mixers)

[David Cutter]

We hear a lot of criticism of paper logging but those teams of operator, 
logger, check-logger 1, 2, 3 were great training for operators-to-be.  I 
first started on field day as 3rd check-logger at the age of 10.  A 
loudspeaker had to be on so we could all hear incoming traffic and that 
meant that visitors could hear and appreciate what was going on with all 
this activity.  Nowadays, the lone operator has his back to visitors who 
have to keep quiet and all they see is a complicated rolling screen(s) of 
characters.  I wouldn't go back, but I feel some fun for the rest of the 
team has diminished somewhat.

3rd check-logger also made the tea on the Primus stove.  We were limited to 
10W input in those days and nobody had heard of "emc."
73
David
G3UNA


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walter Underwood" <wunder at wunderwood.org>
To: "Elecraft Reflector" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2015 5:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Paper Logs (was Audio mixers)


Paper logging is pretty common for emergency communications. Unlike 
contests, the messages can be anything. It is common to have a net control 
and scribe working as a team.

Most of the time, that can be done with a simple headphone distribution amp, 
but there are fancier setups.

wunder
K6WRU
CM87wj
http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)

On Jul 3, 2015, at 10:08 PM, Jack Brindle <jackbrindle at me.com> wrote:

> Lyle, I seriously doubt that, given the task of having to dupe and 
> cross-check 500 or a thousand QSOs in a contest, that even you would be so 
> nostalgic as to do it with the paper dupe sheets we used to have to use. 
> These days if you are logging on paper you have already lost the contest…
>
> 73,
>
> Jack, W6FB (who likewise is remembering all the folks, some close 
> relations, who sacrificed for our freedom).
> (and enjoys ribbing my good friend and co-worker...)
>
>
>> On Jul 3, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Lyle Johnson <kk7p4dsp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Or, some guys just prefer to do it with paper and pencil.  I have lots of 
>> ebooks, but I often prefer to grab a physical, printed-on-paper book and 
>> curl up on the sofa and read.
>>
>> Heck, I've even heard some guys are so stuck in the past they actually 
>> use CW on HF!!!!
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Lyle KK7P (who is enjoying our independence and not forgetting the price 
>> paid for it)
>>
>>>> Not singling you out or anything but I've often wondered why you need 
>>>> separate operator and logger?  This seems to be a practice peculiar to 
>>>> FD
>>>
>>> Yes, this is a practice that goes back to #2 pencil logging and paper 
>>> dupe sheets. The first FD I was on, probably 1955 (a few months before I 
>>> was licensed) was done that way. Once computer logging came into 
>>> existence, there was no good reason for it, but some guys are stuck in 
>>> the past.
>>
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