[Mldxcc] CW

[Alan Maenchen]

I'll go Steve one further ...

PLEASE send machine CW!  Pretty much everyone does anyway in contests and
DXing. Occasionally I work someone with a J-38 who doesn't know how to use
it ... or worse someone with a bug who has no clue. Those are the rare
exceptions. While it's fun to play with a J-38 (I did it for a year
professionally - in the Navy), it's much better to use machine sent code
and fill in with as needed with a decent keyer and paddle. Practice with
the paddle!  It takes a while to be decent, but it's well worth the effort.
There's no need to do the J-38 thing if you don't want to.  Speed is not
the issue. Go with your comfort level.

The more you use it, the better you get.

73, Alan  AD6E
... just back from T33A where I did 100% CW and 99% of that was by machine.





On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Steve Dyer <w1srd at yahoo.com> wrote:

> There is so much crappy hand sent CW out there, PLEASE send with a machine
> :-).
> 73,
> Steve
>
>  Ladies & Gentlemen:
>>
>> I have a question and would like input from many folks.  Please tell me
>> what you think, not what you think that I want to hear.
>>
>> I have never turned my machine loose on cw because of all of the "dumbing
>> down the hobby" and the territorial cw ops.  I just felt that it was
>> invading territory where I hadn't earned the rights. I have been picking up
>> entities with the club log spots and have pretty much thinned out the phone
>> and digital spots.  I see all of the cw spots but am afraid to go there.  I
>> am sure that the true cw folks can spot machine cw in an instant.
>>
>> Help me with my decision.
>>
>> doc
>>
>>
>> NM6K
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