Bunk! In a time long ago a good many of us made due with a switch on our
transmitter and a coax relay. Hundreds and hundreds of contacts. It was all
some of us could do to come up with the money for the relay. Had a ball! A
hand full of crystals, my Johnson Challenger, and HQ-110. Not much rice in
them boxes.
Anytime you call some one a LID for not thinking or operating as you do you
deserve to have your mommy wash your mouth out with soap. The good strong
kind!
Paul
K9PH
-----Original Message-----
From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Jim Brown
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:45 PM
To: amps@contesting.com
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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