I too have been 99.5% CW for many years. Two exceptions in this millennium
were SSB skeds with Fred Cady, neither of which worked.
I know that anecdotes aren’t data, but I will share this one anyway.
Yesterday, having completed a K2 with the SSB option, I went on the air to see
what people would say about the sound quality. I didn’t know it until I got
there, but this weekend is the CQWW SSB contest.
When working CW and when my signal is weak at the station I am calling, the
operator at the other end stays with it through as many repeats as it takes to
complete the QSO. I have often felt badly for everyone else in the pileup who
is just waiting, silently, for their turn. For that reason sometimes I decide
to drop out and let someone else try. That’s typical of CW in my experience.
The one near- SSB QSO I had yesterday, with a North American station, was very
different. After asking one repeat, having gotten half of my call right the
first time, he just said “negative copy, QRZ de WZNXXX.” I tossed the MH2 on
the floor.
Well, the K2 will still work on CW even with the SSB option.
Ted, KN1CBR
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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 18:47:38 +0000
I just avoid 20M.? Problem solved.? There's other bands which respond as
well with fine gentlemen operators, 17M and 30M as examples.? If you've
not tried 60M, it is a wonderful relief from the vocabulary found on 40M.
73
Bob, K4TAX
Message: 13
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 15:09:39 -0400
From: Dave Sublette <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Freq Onwership
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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The issue of who has priority on a given frequency was being debated 60
years ago when I first got on 75 meter AM. It hasn?t changed. It won?t
change. The language issue became a problem for me 20 years ago. As a result
I gave up phone and went to CW only, for the most part. I also went to
headphones because I couldn?t trust what might come out of the speaker when
small children and my XYL were listening. A very few obnoxious people ruin it
for the vast majority.
I haven?t missed phone.
73,
Dave, K4TO
> On Oct 29, 2017, at 2:54 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I just avoid 20M. Problem solved. There's other bands which respond as
well with fine gentlemen operators, 17M and 30M as examples. If you've not
tried 60M, it is a wonderful relief from the vocabulary found on 40M.
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