[Elecraft] Intentional QRM and operating practices.

[Dauer, Edward]

I too have been 99.5% CW for many years.  Two exceptions in this millennium were SSB skeds with Fred Cady, neither of which worked.

I know that anecdotes aren’t data, but I will share this one anyway.  Yesterday, having completed a K2 with the SSB option, I went on the air to see what people would say about the sound quality.  I didn’t know it until I got there, but this weekend is the CQWW SSB contest.  

When working CW and when my signal is weak at the station I am calling, the operator at the other end stays with it through as many repeats as it takes to complete the QSO.  I have often felt badly for everyone else in the pileup who is just waiting, silently, for their turn.  For that reason sometimes I decide to drop out and let someone else try.  That’s typical of CW in my experience.

The one near- SSB QSO I had yesterday, with a North American station, was very different.  After asking one repeat, having gotten half of my call right the first time, he just said “negative copy, QRZ de WZNXXX.”  I tossed the MH2 on the floor.

Well, the K2 will still work on CW even with the SSB option.

Ted, KN1CBR



    
    
    
    
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    Message: 10
    Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 18:47:38 +0000
    
    
    I just avoid 20M.? Problem solved.? There's other bands which respond as 
    well with fine gentlemen operators, 17M and 30M as examples.? If you've 
    not tried 60M, it is a wonderful relief from the vocabulary found on 40M.
    
    73
    
    Bob, K4TAX
    
    
    
    
    Message: 13
    Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 15:09:39 -0400
    From: Dave Sublette <k4to at arrl.net>
    To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
    Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Freq Onwership
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    The issue of who has priority on a given frequency was being debated 60 years ago when I first got on 75 meter AM.  It hasn?t changed.  It won?t change.  The language issue became a problem for me 20 years ago.  As a result I gave up phone and went to CW only, for the most part.  I also went to headphones because I couldn?t trust what might come out of the speaker when small children and my XYL were listening.  A very few obnoxious people ruin it for the vast majority.
    
    I haven?t missed phone.
    
    73,
    
    Dave, K4TO
    > On Oct 29, 2017, at 2:54 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX <rmcgraw at blomand.net> wrote:
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    > I just avoid 20M.  Problem solved.  There's other bands which respond as well with fine gentlemen operators, 17M and 30M as examples.  If you've not tried 60M, it is a wonderful relief from the vocabulary found on 40M.
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