On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, DAVE WHITE wrote:
Ain't nobody getting any younger, Dave! At least if they are, he should patent
his secret and sell it.
Well, I have this photo that I keep stashed away in the attic ...
:-)
Seriously, I find it's a little more difficult for me to stay awake all
night like I used to during contests. Must have something to do with age
...
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
Once I learned CW as a Novice it got in my blood. It's still the mode I
use 99% of the time. I have nothing against anyone else's decision not to
use it and the dropping of the requirement on the test is just water
under the bridge. What REALLY saddens me is that out of about 15 ops on
Field Day this year at our K9CU operation, I was the ONLY one who worked
CW! So if you worked K9CU on FD on 20 or 40 CW, it was me.
73, Zack W9SZ
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