[Fists] Puzzled

[Tim]

Very well said Stan!! - (from a "newbie" to cw of just 3 years)
73/Tim NZ7C
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stanley" <staniw@abq.com>
To: <fists@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 6:26 AM
Subject: [Fists] Puzzled


> Hi Gang:
> I have been reading all the posts which, of late, have been aimed at 
> each other and frankly, I am puzzled. Yes, I am a 20 WPM extra
> licensed and on cw, since 1946 but so what? That doesn't make me a 
> better CW operator. It is my actual "Hands On" or shall I say
> "Fingers On" experience, that makes me either good or bad.. We are 
> accomplishing nothing by growling at each other. I, for one,
> have just decided to go back to the basics. I dug out my old Blue Racer 
> Bug again (from 1950) and am using nothing else. I have
> put my paddle away and believe it or not, I am having more fun than the 
> proverbial "Barrel of Monkies". I have to swallow my pride,
> because anyone can send with a paddle, but using the old Blue Racer gets 
> us back to the basic skills that made this hobby what it
> is when it comes to CW. I have made contacts with other bug ops that 
> make me eat some "Humble Pie" and that shows me where the
> real value lies in CW.  No matter what happens to our favorite mode, I 
> am going to keep operating on the bands in my favorite mode
> even in between the SSB guys that will move in around us, and I will one 
> day, disappear into the sunset still beating on my old
> Blue Racer.
> Stan W5ZF (ex: W6BCT, W5RSI)
> FISTS No. 6183
> DXCC Homor Roll
> 
> 
> 
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