Hi,
The logging by recorder is a good idea. One member of the Minnesota
Wireless Association does it for the MN QSO Party with video and posts
them to YouTube. I would miss some details in conversational CW and so I
do write down details, but mostly not looking. I also only operate on
pretty quiet sections of roadway. Hehe road bumps do have an effect on
sending! I did use my Jupiter from the vehicle one time with one contact
to France while running 50 watts. It's just a bit too big to have on the
seat all the time, but I really do like it's size on the desktop. I
should find out if TT still has any Eagle mobile mounts. I use a Bencher
straight key turned around backwards. I have long arms.
I call it text'ing with out looking. If there was anything that should
have been close to scary it was that my first CW contact after many
years was done mobile. Pretty exciting really. Apartment living is what
drove me to this you know. If I get near town I normally pull over
somewhere and finish the QSO. A couple of times it has been mobile to
mobile CW.
My friend in KY is the one who suggested I operate mobile. He didn't
know I would take it and use CW. This was three years ago. I think it
was his fault back in 88 as well. In that case I had HF phone in the car
for our move to Alaska which was nice for the trip.
Tim
KE4KE
On 06/06/2016 05:36 PM, Duane Calvin wrote:
When I operated HF mobile, CW included, it was only on the interstates, and
only in the long stretches where traffic was low. I logged with a mini-tape
recorder (later a digital recorder) and then transcribed that data to a
mobile log in the evening once I reached a motel. As far as CW, I've copied
in my head for years, and it's just like another language to me. It was no
harder to do mobile CW than mobile phone. If I wanted to chase a DX CW
station, I always pulled off an exit and operated parked. That becomes too
distracting. Overall, I think it depends on the operator, the road
conditions, weather, and a lot of other variables. (Oh, and my mobile
station was set up with a Hi-Q screwdriver and a TurboTuner, so just pushing
the "Tune" button took care of all tuning for me - eyes on the road the
whole time.)
73, Duane
Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas
ac5aa@ac5aa.com
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Subject: [TenTec] CW Mobile
Personally I feel more comfortable when the car is stopped. I tried
operating cw moving and found keeping a log to be the really hard part.
Also, to me, depended on where you were. Out in the country somewhere with
little traffic not so bad. Some truckers run cw moving all the time.
They probably use tape recorders to keep history of contacts. Personally I
like to park on top of a high ridge. If it scares you back off. jim,K4CFA
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