I sold my Omni VI with the idea that I would get a VI+ around the Winter
season. I picked up a new Yaesu FT-920 so I would have a general coverage
receiver to listen to all the world events going on as well as remain CW
oping. I thought I could get by using the FT-920 on CW until later in the
year.
I was terribly wrong. The FT-920 (and most others) are poor excuses for a CW
rig. Why the makers of Yaesu, Kenwood and Icom cannot make a halfway decent
QSK rig is beyond me. I am starting to think that the makers of these
foreign rigs try to put their foreign accent's into the CW notes and that is
why they sound as they do. Don't they listen to the garbage coming out of
these rigs on CW?
I ordered a new Omni VI+ today, the xyl does not know yet - I prefer to go
through hell at home with the xyl than continue until Winter without a QSK
rig.
I guess I do not need to tell the people on this reflector the above story.
73,
Ken Kreis, KA0W
Rudd, IA
kia@netins.net
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