[Fists] CQ ALL Fists

[YoDoc at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/25/04 3:58:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
fists-request at mailman.qth.net writes:
I wonder if anyone can instruct FISTS members in how to contact on "058" and 
then move off frequency to continue their contact.


73

David Ring
N1EA
David:

This is a pipe dream.  The problem is, there are too many geezers in their 
70's and 80's on the FISTS frequencies, who have never "moved" to work a station 
answering their call in their whole lives, and who aren't about to start 
doing so now.  Getting them to QSY after calling CQ and being answered would be 
about as difficult as getting them to stop driving their Buick Roadmasters in 
the left lane at  9 MPH below the speed limit!  Until the people who do things 
the same way they've always done things "just because that's the way we always 
did it" are finally SK, we will have to put up with things like that certain 
YL FISTS member in Florida who "runs" 14.058 all day long.  The last time I 
heard that was pretty much the last time I was active in FISTS.  I've been 
enjoying PSK-31 ever since.  But don't feel bad -- the antics of the 10-10 group are 
what put me off HF phone, and that was 10 years before I ever heard of FISTS! 
 FISTS members, with their VFO knobs welded on the .058's, their sloppy, 
run-together, indecipherable sending, and their incessant number-crunching have 
had pretty much the same effect on me as all the ex-CB'ers on 10-10.  

Does anyone out there know of a group of REAL hams interested in preserving 
CW and also capable of something resembling good radio operation while 
on-the-air?  

Not so fast, FISTS -- I wasn't talking about you!

73 de Larry, K3LT
FISTS 2008