[K3PZN-List] CW's One Night Stand

[Curt Milton]

Al

Thanks for the post!  I guess I resemble the remarks
as my first rig was controlled by a straight key,
although I am from the era when sending tests were
eliminated from FCC requirements - although after
passing my novice code test the examiner (a HS history
teacher at my school) persisted in giving me a sending
exam .... I probably would have never passed a sending
test at 13 wpm although i did use at first a straight
key when i returned to hobby in 1989 .... but it has
since collected dust.  If you are willing to join us I
would be glad to put away my paddles and keyboard for
a little CW .... its still a very useful mode and I
have learned CW contesting with PC assistance is a
blast!  No CW contests would not be fun without the PC
assistant, but I respect the heritage of pounding
brass.  When I get back to restoring the HW16, it will
be a straight key machine until I acquire technology
to drive its high voltage from a keyer!  

curt

--- Al Bisasky K3ZE <al.bisasky at verizon.net> wrote:

> Well folks, it's that time of the year when we pay
> homage to the lost art of
> working CW with a "Straight Key".  The night that
> seperates the Real Hams
> from the
>
Vibraplex-bug-iambic-paddle-electronic-keyer-PC-keyboard-automatic-reading-c
> anned-memory-UR 599 OM  five wpm girlie men.  You
> know, the greybeards and
> old buffaloes that down a double shot of the hair of
> the dog to steady their
> fingers and try to send a coherent message and
> relive those halcyon days
> when the FCC actually required you to receive AND
> send at 13 and 20 wpm.
> 


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