Re: [Elecraft] Commercial CW ops (WAS: Bug Tamer)

2006-02-01 Thread Bob Baxter
On 1/31/06, Ron D'Eau Claire [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a shore operator ran into someone who wanted to QRQ they obliged to the best of their ability. In my experience, ship operators aren't a lot different from Hams. Some were very competent and others less so. The best op I ever worked,

[Elecraft] Commercial CW ops (WAS: Bug Tamer)

2006-01-31 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
Ron - Sometimes I think there must have been real compitions between operators. Maybe in the military. No firsthand experience here. I put in for radio school in 1964 but they sent me to cook and baker school. I worked with a guy who had been on a ship. He said that when someone challanged

Re: [Elecraft] Commercial CW ops (WAS: Bug Tamer)

2006-01-31 Thread Vic K2VCO
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: I can hold a conversation with the XYL while in a CW QSO, although I might tell the XYL that I'm running an Elecraft K2 and tell the guy in the air that I'll pick up milk next time I go to the store... That's funny. I can copy or send CW while listening to someone