Grant, I have to call you on this one.
Ahhhh, then arguably we could say that taking advantage of the serial
port in our Orions for rig control, or using contesting/logging software
during a contest is NOT REALLY CONTESTING! because that isn't how we use
to do it! And to be a real contester one must log and dupe the OLD way
or they are just another...
"nothing more than some schmuck typing on a keyboard"
Seriously, as an engineer at Heath in the early 80s two of my first projects
where the u5010 memory keyer (what is this memory stuff about?) and the HD-8999
CW Keyboard. Both were big products for Heath at the time.... both allowed CW
ops a degree of relief when it came to hand fatigue and movement coordination.
Now, nearly 30 years later I am becoming an OF at 55 with advancing chronic
arthritis in my hands... not so bad yet that I can't ever send with my paddles,
but bad enough that my frequency of errors is steadily increasing. Yet I can
still 'hear' the music and love the mode, yet I have become sadly reluctant to
get on the air as there are others who feel like Grant does. And I hate to
disappoint! Guess hams like me should just hang up the mode, right? Hate to
become...
"nothing more than some schmuck typing on a keyboard."
Oh, and finally, just when I get enough energy to come back to this reflector
as sometimes there are some gems of knowledge/experience t be had, I run
into....
nothing more than some schmuck typing on a keyboard! :)
Jerry, KG6TT
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Ralph Jerald "Jerry" Volpe
Amateur Radio Operator KG6TT
ARRL Member & VE
FISTS 12304
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