I love Wayne's story, which demonstrates how much more value you
get from mastering activities that involve some difficulty. As
others have pointed out, it is very well written too. However,
sometimes those arguments don't work.
When that happens, my favorite argument is: And how do you ask
for 5 units of type O+ blood on FT4/8?
I use FT4/8 frequently, but it always seems a bit like cheating
because there is no good answer to the above question.
Contesting and DXing started as practice for emergency
communications, which is the reason many people give for getting
their licenses. Emergency modes should allow for the above message.
As an example, when operating in Field Day, it is legal (I
think) to use a cell phone as a link to an Internat based time
server. Does this make sense for an EmComm based event? One can
argue about GPS based time sync or high stability clocks, but
modes that require time sync seem fragile in an emergency
situation. What happens if a CME has taken out the GPS?
The good news is I made many CW contacts, along with some PSk31,
RTTY, and voice contacts which don't have these problems.
73 Bill AE6JV
On 7/12/20 at 11:07 AM, [email protected] (Wayne Burdick) wrote:
Within weeks, he'd mastered everything there was to know about
this glorious new hobby.
Point. Click.
In this new world order, those of us who took the longer,
slower path to ionospheric enlightenment -- and who still
occasionally enjoy making waves by hand -- often fail to
explain why.
I had failed to explain it to my friend. Even as hints of his
boredom crept in, creating an opening, the best argument I'd
made for trying CW was that he could do it without a computer.
Coming in a weak second was the notion that CW was the original
digital mode. For obvious reasons, I didn't bother with the
classic argument about CW's signal-to-noise advantage over SSB.
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