Hi Ken, Welcome to the cw... although, I must admit, that I don't agree that you should feel that you "have" to.. it is unfortunate that some folks impose that sort of feelings on others. Now.. with you doing cw... have a blast, there are some of us that don't do phone, much at all.. shoot.. I find my mic, once a week.. mostly.. sometimes not, for all of 20 maybe even 30 minutes.... never more. The rest of the 5 - 8 hours that I am on, it is with the bandpass down to the 700 cycle width.. (yea, I know it is now called Hertz, but I don't want a car driving through my rx) and most of the phone guys find it really hard to get through that... no.. I don't fuss with them much.. only the very few that I know that will actually answer a cw response in their passband, and that doesn't happen often. I am usually way to busy having a whole lot of fun, with cw, finding nice folks that can and do offer a good conversation, usually starting with the station, and extending to the family, and sometimes to things like the news.. or not news...
Lots of fun, with talking with my fingers, to folks that range from every walk of life, and even without sunspots, a wide range of geography. So, turn it on and tune it up, come join the party... the waters fine... or the cw's a blast!! C U on the air, soon! --... ...-- Dale - WC7S in Wy (let's talk about credentials on the air...k?.. oh.. that means I need to find some?) > > Well, I was all set to jump in with a question about microphones and my K2, > but the atmosphere around here seems a little too poisonous to be asking for > help. Maybe some other time. I'll just keep using CW for now... > > 73, > > Ken Alexander, VE3HLS > (no impressive credentials or other distinctions) > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_BR_life_in_synch_052009 ______________________________________________________________ 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
