Subj : Storage
To : Ed Vance
From : Roy Witt
Date : Mon Jul 07 2014 03:36 pm
Greetings Ed!
EV>> As I have been reading this Thread the thought has come to my mind
EV>> of how many participate in CW Contests?
RW>> I've done that with a DX group. They were Extras, I was a
RW>> Novice, then a Technician and finally a General.
EV> I was asked to keep the Log beside a High Speed CW OT OP the first
EV> Field Day I participated in after I got back home from the Navy.
c1960?
EV> The Op would ask me, "did You get that?" and I say "sure".
EV> That went on for a few contacts and when I told him when I was in
EV> Navy Radioman School my CW RCVing Speed got up to 26WPM, after I told
EV> him that he never ask me anything again except if the station he was
EV> calling was a Dupe contact. They gave me a Flip-Top Telephone Index
EV> for a Dupe Log, to write the Call Signs down of the Stations we
EV> already worked on that frequency, and usually I'd let him know if the
EV> Station had already been worked before he'd have the chance to ask
EV> me.
CW conversations are fun. But I never got that excited about them.
EV> Back when I listened to the W1AW Code Practice audio a few months
EV> ago, I found out how rusty I was at copying High Speed CW.
Heh! Sometimes I have a hard time copying the IDer on a repeater and have
to listen to it a couple of times to get it. Now that's rusty!
EV>> I'd think that would be a fair way to find out if CW is a lost art
EV>> or not, don't You think?
RW>> It might help to clean up some of the man-made noisy interfence
RW>> on the phone bands.
EV> I'd say have everyone go back to using AM then. hi
