Regardless of whether there are more or less ops on cw I think the real
point is that a major radio manufacturer (in this case Yaesu) has continued
to build radios that have well known and easily fixed defects.
While we seem to have little impact on their desire to fix the problems we
can, and should vote with our wallet. I HATE to hear of someone buying a
brand new radio and having the mods done. Why not buy another brand without
mods needed?? As a community we, hams, should be putting as much pressure on
the manufacturer as we can to get them to turn out radios that don't clutter
up the band with key clicks, phase noise, or other extraneous junk! We send
the wrong signal when we continue to buy the radios we complain about.
Ron
N4XD
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From: topband-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:topband-bounces@contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Tom Rauch
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 9:18 PM
To: Jim Brown; topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Yaesu Key clicks
> Some folks with megastations like yours tend to lose sight
of how
> the majority of hams have to live.
Hi Jim,
Your observation was that no one was on CW, and that's why a manufacturer in
a country where 160 is 100% CW by law doesn't need to worry about correcting
a design problem that won't even affect the cost of the products they sell.
My station and your station doesn't have anything to do with how many people
work CW, except to add two people to the total count.
I didn't create the stations I heard and the stations that were worked, I
only reported they actually existed (and also mentioned 40m was loaded with
CW after sunrise, it's that way every day).
There isn't any doubt in my mind there are more people on CW now than there
were 10 or 20 years ago. I think there is less ragchewing, but that's true
on SSB and even on 2 meter FM. When people want to talk now, they type.
As an example we could be working CW or SSB and talking about this, but we
are here typing. But we both are active on CW, as are about 50% of the
active Hams.
73 Tom
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