[Amps] Ham Tests, was Price per Watt Conversation

[Carl]

You might be going on 76 Jim but when you cant stay on subject I begin to 
wonder.

Im going on 77 and knew the subject was about emergency comms, not 
daydreaming in the home ham shack.

Carl



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Brown" <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Ham Tests, was Price per Watt Conversation


> I've primarily worked CW since I was first licensed in 1955, and am a 
> founding member of CWOPS. That said, I agree with Bill and disagree with 
> Mark. Why? Because this is 2017, not 1912. Then was then, and now is now. 
> I'm going on 76 years old, but I still try to live in the present, not the 
> past, and prepare for the future. I'm active on CW, RTTY, JT65, JT9, 
> FSK441 and FM on VHF and UHF bands. I also work SSB, mostly to support 
> club competition. W6WRT is also active on JT65.
>
> While all would agree that CW can provide solid copy between trained 
> operators at far lower signal levels than SSB, there are far fewer trained 
> operators today than in 1955 when I started out. And no matter how strong 
> or weak the signal, if the op on the other end can't copy CW, no 
> communications will take place.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
> On Thu,4/27/2017 4:46 PM, Mark Bitterlich wrote:
>> "I'm sure if the Titanic radio op had voice capability he would have
>> used it first. Of course in the Titanic case it wouldn't have mattered
>> since the only ship listening was too far away. "  Bill W6WRT
>>
>> The above is a typical "Bill W6WRT" response.  Biased, made to believe he 
>> is always correct, and belittling of the person who disagreed with him. 
>> Worse it does disservice to the hero's of the day who used Morse Code to 
>> save over half of the crew of this famous ship.
>>
>> Actually numerous ships and shore stations heard the Titanic.  Not just 
>> "the only ship listening" as W6WRT would have you believe, which is just 
>> so much misinformation.
>>
>> "Come at once. We have struck a berg. It's a CQD, old man," the Titanic 
>> called to another ship, the Carpathia.
>> "We have struck an iceberg and sinking by the head," she told a German 
>> ship, the Frankfurt.
>>
>> "In response her sister ship, the Olympic called back: "Am lighting up 
>> all boilers as fast as we can."
>>
>> "there was "never a tremor" in the Morse tapped out by Jack Phillips."
>>
>> "I will never live to forget the work of Phillips during the last awful 
>> 15 minutes," said Bride.
>>
>> "I suddenly felt a great reverence to see him standing there sticking to 
>> his work while everybody else was raging about."
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> To repeat:  "Bill Turner" <dezrat at outlook.com> said:  "Relying on CW will 
>> get people killed."
>>
>>
>>
>> No, I don't think so Bill.  History has shown overwise.  But you can 
>> ignore history if you'd like.
>>
>
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