Reading all these associated posts over the past two days has been heartwarming - because it's great to see that CW is being taken so seriously by so many hams, new and old alike.
But folks, "it is what it is and it ain't gonna change." This is my opinion. When a lot of us who are now on Social Security got our licenses, society was made up of people with vastly different viewpoints compared to today. Back then, we grew up to respect rules, authority, conventions, and so forth. If your Elmer said, "do it like this" then you just complied. And it became habit. Hams are just a subset of society and today, we've got us old geezers all mixed in with the younger crowd. Hence, "73s", inventive uses for prosigns, "di-dit di-dit" instead of BT, using BK for virtually every transmission to avoid signing, six dits in the figure '5', the letter 'o' for a zero, and something that seems to be on the increase - dropping the 'de'. So I just keep operating in my old fashioned way, striving for accuracy and try to avoid picking up 'bad habits'. 73, Stan WB2LQF ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
