Yes, that's the way they do it around here.
Although, one of the guys in the contest group I was invited to join,
likes to pound calling CQ by hand, and he claims hand-generated code
calling CQ is somehow more distinct, and gets more attention, than
machine generated code. So he pounds out CQ by hand, and does the rest
with the memory keyer.
By the way, he's nearly deaf, so the fact he can do code at all is an
amazing thing. He says he cannot really hear the tone, but can still
feel the rhythm in his ears, and it's that rhythm, not the tone, that he
senses - and which he says is the essence of it all. So like Johnny
Cash, you "got to have rhythm."
Happy trails.
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On 5/24/2010 6:28 PM, N4PY2 wrote:
They all use keyers
with memories to send their CQ's and copy in their heads to get the QSO's.
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