> -----Original Message-----
> From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Jim Kearman
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 7:38 PM
> To: amps@contesting.com
> Cc: Gary Schafer
> Subject: Re: [Amps] 87A vs. IC-PW1
>
>
> > I guess that then makes all SSB contesters lids?
>
> You said it Gary, I didn't say it. But do we all need a refresher course
> in Logic? Someone else opined that those who have "worked them all" must
> axiomatically not be lids. Now this attempt to bring SSB into the
> discussion. "QSK" should have been enough to limit the parameters of the
> discussion to Morse Code operation.
>
> In the midst of all this chaos, I wish to restate that _I_ have not called
> anyone a lid. What I say in the privacy of my shack is between me and the
> armadillos.
>
> 73,
>
> Jim, KR1S
> http://kr1s.kearman.com/
"A refresher course in logic", I would say that might be in order here.
QSK can be done on SSB as well as CW although no one that I know is set up
to do so, but it can be done between syllables of speech.
My point is then, that because no one does it then according to your
definition of a lid, all SSB operators are such.
The definition of "lid" last I looked meant "poor operator or poor operating
practice". It has little or nothing to do with the type of equipment that is
being operated.
QSK or not QSK has nothing to do with a lid so how does it get into the
discussion of QSK.
I have heard many operators keep calling over top of the DX station when he
is transmitting. That I call "poor operating practice". some may call that
operator a lid. But it has nothing to do with how the station is or is not
equipped. Any one, QSK equipped or not, can avoid doing such things as
evidenced by the many excellent operators on the bands including SSB
operators.
However I will concede there seems to be a bumper crop of non excellent
operators.
73
Gary K4FMX
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