[Fists] Sloppy Sending

Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:50:03 EDT

In a message dated 08/06/2003 8:59:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

<< Message: 2
 From: <[email protected]>
 To: "FISTS" <[email protected]>
 Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:35:25 -0500
 Subject: [Fists] Is it just me?

SNIP

 I'm not talking about speed, QRN, QRM, proper procedural signs or
 tone. I'm talking about sloppy sending plain and simple. You know what
 I mean, if the letter "H" has four dits then by golly five or six dits
 are so much the better, etc. This is just poor amateur practice, isn't
 it?

 Maybe I'm just getting old and grumpy, but the "joy" has certainly
 gone out of the game for me when a fellow two states over with a 599
 signal is trying to tell me his weather and I have to work my tail off
 to decipher his crappy sending. I don't feel that I should tell the
 guy he has a horrible fist (kinda like telling someone at a party they
 have bad breath) so I just dream up some excuse to go QRT and get the
 heck out.

 Is it just me or is sloppy sending becoming an epidemic?

 -- 
 Jeff, KE9V >>

Jeff:

It's not just you.  Sloppy Sending is a genuine epidemic, and alleged
FISTS members are some of the worst offenders.  The concept of making
spaces between letters and words seems to escape most CW users
these days.  Asking them to QRS doesn't help, they just run everything
together about 1 WPM slower.  You can't win.  

73 de Larry, K3LT