Re: [TenTec] No more need

["Ken" <ka0w@spamcop.net>]

The challenge is still there.

If you want to use (and enjoy) CW with your TT rig you still have to take up 
the challenge and learn it.
The amazing thing about CW is no to ops sound the same. That always has 
reminded me that CW is an on going challenge. A "learned" skill where one is 
never good enough. I have never read, nor heard, about any other mode that 
takes the time and effort like that of CW. That is what makes it so amusing 
to those who really get to know it.
It's great to have the people at Ten Ten who know what a CW rig should sound 
like.
Have a Merry Christmas!

Ken, KA0W





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Delaune" <chas118@cableone.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 8:32 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] No more need


> Judging from what I've been reading so far -- I feel it safe to say that
> I'll be preaching to the choir with my feelings on the subject.
> None-the-less, I'll put my two cents in the pot...
>
> If nothing else, the Morse code requirement was, at the very least, a
> tradition, that made me feel like I accomplished something when I HAD to
> learn it to get my first Ham ticket, and the content of the theory element
> of the higher class exams were such that you had to have a real
> understanding of radio theory/electronics as opposed to the Mickey Mouse
> questions that have been used in the question pool for the past 15 years 
> or
> so. In other words, the written elements have been so watered-down,
> memorization has slowly taken the place of study and learning. So, now 
> that
> CW will no longer be a requirement and the written exams have been such a
> joke, my question now is ...WHERE'S THE CHALLENGE??? Or, has this concept,
> like CW, been declared antiquated, and has now fallen victim to political
> correctness?
>
> N5BLY--Charlie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Ed Malmgren
> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 7:27 PM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: [TenTec] No more need
>
> Well if the reason for C W was for a pool in time of war and now not 
> needed,
> the government has a   damned short memory as to all the service ham radio
> does in time of emergencies when no other means of communication is
> available so thanks to whoever dropped the ball.  Ed K7UC
>
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