Another thing to consider - CW ops may be getting older in NA, but in E.
EU, they are still going strong with new young recruits. When I
participated in the IARU High Speed Telegraphy competition a few years
ago, I was very surprised by the number of kids (YLs too!) participating.
As an example, check out some of the RUFZ scores at
http://www.rufzxp.net/toplist.htm
Score #1 by LZ2CWW, a YL under 16 yo, has a top speed of 745 CPM (which
equals 149 WPM!!)
Barry W2UP
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Glad this subject came up! Still more or less being considered young
in this hobby at age 33 going on 23 I hold the highest regaurd for
preserving the foundation of Amatuer Radio. Such as for CW for
instance I think it's the most important mode just for our sole
purpose which we can make great use of besides in emergency
communications.
Like many of us real CW operators if there were an emergency and we
knew at the other end of the Red Cross line there were another Ham op.
I would hope that if CW were my last hope at getting a message across
i'd have a chance right? WRONG! I can't wait for them to load up HRD
or some other type of program when I may have a few seconds or minute
to get the code across.
"I'm a CW operator" my response "oh yeah! What type of keyer do you
use?" theirs "Keyer! I use a keyboard" What!!!!!!
Folks! Just because you use a keyboard for CW does not make you CW
operators unless you can receive and send CW with some sort of keyer.
Any fool can send with a keyboard, but when put to test can you step up?
My belief and point about the code and no code exams were always about
the points I mentioned above. Plus! The fact that it was the most
effcient mode and comes in handy every time. Those students people
always made it about nostalgia or personal. So now that you have a
keyboard and interface CW all of a sudden is the mode used mostly for
many? Gee! I wonder why.
73!
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From: DAVE WHITE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: July 01, 2008 5:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; dx-chat@njdxa.org
Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Are CW ops getting older?
Ain't nobody getting any younger, Dave! At least if they are, he
should patent his secret and sell it.
On a serious point, I felt that it was always the older members of the
hobby who wished to preserve cw as an entry criterion for the HF bands
- something which I always considered to be ridiculous (no, I'm NOT
trying to re-open the code/no-code debate).
Interestingly, I always said that there was no way I'd ever mess about
operating cw, and only did the test to get my ticket. The mode held
no interest for me at all. But then one day I bought an all-mode
TNC at a hamfest - actually to send/receive RTTY - so I hooked it up
to my computer and started to use it. Incidentally it also worked for
cw, so it rather "got me into" using the mode on the bands just out of
interest.
Strangely, I look at my log book these days and I'd say that cw is the
mode that I use the most. As you imply, it's probably an age thing.
I still send from the keyboard, though use Human Brain Mark #1 for
decoding. More grey hairs - of which I now have many - means more cw
operating, perhaps?
I shall practice sitting on my porch, barking at passers-by and waving
my stick at passing traffic in between sending with a bug key. Will I
then be a fully-fledged, 100 percent cw op? ......
cheers
Dave G0OIL
*/David Rollitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote:
HI,
I recently made a few QSO's during the All Asia CW test, the
exchange in the AA Test is RS(T) and Age for OM's.
Having checked my contacts I found the average age was 49.1!!
I wonder if anyone else checked their contacts this way.
It will be interesting to do the same thing with the SSB test
coming up ( I think) in September.
73
David G3XYP
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