[Amps] 87A vs. IC-PW1

[Van K7VS]

Gee....guess you can include me in your list of lids, there Jim!  Over 50 
thousand cw contest q's and never a qsk contact among them.  And you 
probably ought to include another 70 thousand from our group of pretty well 
thought of DX ops that operated as XZ0A in 2001 from Myanmar of which I was 
one.   Van, K7VS
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Gudguyham at aol.com>
To: <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>; <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] 87A vs. IC-PW1


>
> In a message dated 2/22/2006 1:09:04 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> jim at audiosystemsgroup.com writes:
>
> To me,  QSK is an
> absolute MUST for CW operation. Without it, you're a lid,  because
> you can't hear what's going on while you're transmitting.
>
>
>
>
> Well, I guess I am a lid then, however, if you are tramsmitting on a
> frequency and someone comes on top of you......Whos is the lid? 
> Unfortunately
> there is alot of us lids out here that don't use QSK.  39  years a ham 
> err...LID.
> 73 Lou
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