Hi Jim,
Well, I've tried QSK --- tried to FORCE myself to like it, even! --- but
it's just not for me, I'm afraid...reminds me too much of operating SSB with
the VOX delay control set to near zero, where you can hear the background
noise on the frequency between every spoken sylllable.
Do you operate fone like that, too...? Do you really, honestly like it...?
And don't go telling me that it's somehow different because it's sideband, &
not CW...to me the techniques are one & the same.
I guess after 35 years as a licensed Ham I'm still an inexperienced,
technologically backward kind of a guy...but nobody's perfect, & I can live
with this one imperfection! Hi Hi
~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] QSK or not
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:37:13 -0500, Ed Swynar wrote:
>
> >I think to-day's operators are far sloppier in their
> >sending than those of, say, 25 years ago, when QSK may NOT have been as
> >prevalent as it is to-day
>
> Until the advent of rice box transceivers designed primarily for SSB with
> CW as an afterthought, QSK was pretty much the rule on the CW bands. In
> fact, one of the major reasons for the high level of acceptance of Ten
> Tec by CW ops is that from the beginning, all of their products, both
> amps and transceivers, work full QSK and do it quite well. The same is
> true of Elecraft, also quite popular with CW ops, both contesters and
> otherwise. Luckily, most decent transceivers today will do QSK just fine.
>
> So it was the designers of equipment who made those decisions, and of
> purchasers when they bought the gear without QSK because there were few
> other choices. It costs more to build a transceiver and an amp with QSK,
> so the WalMart syndrome drove things.
>
> I've heard some folks say that they are distracted by hearing the band
> when they're trying to send. But if they hear stuff on their own
> frequency, perhaps they shouldn't be transmitting! Or perhaps the RF
> gain is turned up too high, or the IF filter is too broad. Some ops need
> to write it all down to copy it, other more experienced ops don't. As the
> old musician gag goes, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall? -- practice,
> practice, practice."
>
> 73,
>
> Jim K9YC
>
>
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