[CQ-Contest] Dead horse

[Zack Widup]

The original purpose of Morse and all voice modes was to be copied by ear. 
The original purpose of Baudot RTTY and all digital modes after that was 
to be copied by machine.

If someone wants to try to copy CW with a machine, best of luck to them. 
It just wasn't intended that way in the first place and I for one won't do 
it.

I do use a keyer paddle to send CW but I don't even care for 
keyboard-generated CW. The keyer paddle was a natural extension of the bug 
(I still own one of those, too, and use it on rare occasions.) Maybe I'm 
just an Olde Fahrt.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, W4ZW wrote:

>> The idea of a machine copying code for me is an affront to everthing I've
tried to achieve
> as a CW operator.
> But now that Skimmer is loose on the World it's time to evolve, adapt, or
perish.
> 73 Steve K0SR

I agree.

This seems to be another tempest in a teapot to me.  CW, and those of us who
cherish the mode, are rapidly heading for extinction.  More and more of my
old CW buddies are becoming SK's and there aren't many replacements.  I say
that if we have some source of technology that will give us a few more years
of CW operating, I'm all for it.  Whether some OP copies me with his CW
reader and sends CW from his keyboard doesn?t really matter, it's still CW
from my end.  And after 53 years of enjoying CW,  I'd like just a few more.

My 2 cents.



Jon Hamlet, W4ZW

Casey Key Island, Florida
"A little piece of paradise in the Gulf of Mexico"



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