Actually, you are probably not missing anything from those sending with macros. A fun and mischievous way to go about this: What if you actually ask some sort of question from the macro operators? Could be anything so long as another macro does not answer it. You would quickly find out whether they can handle that keyboard and have something to say beyond the brag macro --- which can carry some of the most inane materials.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:31 PM, WILLIS COOKE <[email protected]> wrote: > I feel the same way Denis. I guess when I finish Honor Roll and Challenge > 3000 maybe I will get back to it, but I am old and the younger folks don't > seem to get the charge from CW that I do. To me, even when you talk, digi > is too much like email! > > Willis 'Cookie' Cooke, TDXS DX Chairman > K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart > > > ________________________________ > From: F5vjc <[email protected]> > To: Elecraft Reflector <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 5:56 PM > Subject: [Elecraft] Digimodes what am I missing? > > > Is it me, but what is the attraction to the Digimodes? > > I can and do understand the achievement to get a new mode working, which is > the only satisfaction that I can find. > > Why? > > Having succeeded in getting any Digimode working the only traffic I see > are canned messages and brag dialogues of no great interest. > All rather boring and impersonal. > What PC, how much memory, what operating system ad nausea. > > Yes I operate CW and the rubber stamp and the DX QSO are very familiar to > me but at least it's a skill to send and receive CW. > > I am not knocking the Digimodes I hope but would like to know, are there > any real keyboard to keyboard interesting QSO/s to be found, and if so > where? > > 73, F5VJC > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > -- 73 de Ted Edwards, W3TB and GØPWW and thinking about operating CW: "Do today what others won't, so you can do tomorrow what others can't." ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
