[SECC] Notes on 40 and SAC

[Dan/W4NTI]

No JT I don't think I am "painting with a very broad brush".  Look....if 
you, or anyone else, can only copy machine generated Morse,  i.e. 
computer, tapes, or in other words not off the AIR as in a real radio.  
Then you can't possibly copy CW off of the 40 meter band at any useful 
speed.  No one operates at the useless speed of 5 wpm.  In fact I can't 
even copy 5 WPM.  It is too slow.   Instead of H I hear four E's.  A O 
to me at 5 wpm is Three T's.  And I'm not trying to be a smart Arse,  
that is just the way it is.

What I am trying to say is......if you don't read CW,  then how are you 
going to know it is actually being used on the "channel" the TTY guy is 
fixing to dump on.  That is the only explaination I have....other 
than........THEY KNOW FULL WELL CW IS ON IT AND JUST DON'T CARE AND DUMP 
RIGHT ON TOP.  So which is worse?  Right.

I think dropping to 5 wpm accomplished NOTHING.  The Extra Class used to 
mean something.  The 1X2 call,  heck the 1X3 W and K,  used to mean 
something.  All it means now is you payed your money for a dead man's 
call. But that's another subject.

That's my opinion.  And it is not meant to be personal.  Because that is 
what the FCC has decided.  Of course they support BPL also.  Nuff 
said...right?

Dan/W4NTI


JT Croteau wrote:
> On 9/28/06, Dan/W4NTI <w4nti at mindspring.com> wrote:
>   
>> * Then please allow me to correct my statement.....
>> Change "new RTTY operators"  to "new RTTY operators
>> with minimal to NO CW abilities just don't give a rip about
>> CW".
>>     
>
> Ahem.
>
> Painting with a very broad brush again Dan, but I still love ya and
> only busting your chops.
>
> I don't operate CW mainly cause I am too lazy to learn beyond the
> mental block I set in my mind when I passed my 5 WPM novice exam.  I
> am only an Extra today because they took away the 20 WPM requirement.
>
> I still love to listen to CW though and admire those who choose this
> mode as their only mode and are really good at it.  Hell, my original
> vanity call, W6CFO, which led to my current 1x2 call, was in salute to
> the Chicken Fat Operators.. a group of very fine high speed operators.
>  I only changed calls because I always wanted a 1x2.
>
> One of these days I will get off my lazy butt and learn it correctly
> and start using it.  I just built a PicoKeyer to use with my TenTec
> Argosy and waiting for some paddles to come in.  Until then, I am
> having fun with RTTY and Hellscheiber modes and respecting my QRP CW
> friends down on 7.030, 7.040, and 14.060.
>
> --
>  JT Croteau - W6FO - Canton, GA
>  ARS #2,147 | NoGA-QRP | SEDXC | SECC | ARRL
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