[OKDXA] LID FILTERS

[Coy Day]

Kim,

Well said.  For some of us Morse is not a mode.  It is a religion!

Coy
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Coy Day, N5OK
20685 SW 29
Union City, OK 73090
405-483-5632

Kim Elmore wrote:
> I'm a devoted CW op, though I'm not any kind of high-speed superhero.
> I use CW almost exclusively. I cynically quip that any idiot can
> talk, just listen to 20 and 75 m. And, to a person, each of *them*
> had to pass a CW test. CW a lid filter?  Bah!  Humbug!
>
> Yes, yes: I got all my licenses (save the Novice) in front of the FCC
> and I'm a 20 wpm Extra. Anyone could (and can) do it, as I'm clearly
> proof. I now own a software-defined radio: for the most part, I can't
> fix it if it breaks and I can't generate the code that makes it go.
> Therefore, I'm an appliance operator! Yet, this radio does things
> undreamed of when I bought my TS-930S over 20 years ago, so I'm
> willing to pay the price of operating an "appliance."
>
> CW will continue, just like RTTY continues in the face of "superior"
> non-CW digital modes. And make no mistake, by almost any measure the
> newer digital modes *are* superior. AM continues in the face of
> "superior" SSB, which will continue in the face of digital audio. And
> so it goes. For many, CW has a mystique that transcends licensing
> requirements. That mystique will never be universal, but it doesn't
> have to be because  CW the "Classical Music" of radio.
>
> Kim Elmore, N5OP
>
> .
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