[TenTec] CW-Only Rig?

[Avila, Edward]

Charles, sad but true.........I'm 51 and returned to CW after 35 years of
phone or no hamming and really disappointed with the CW bands -- last nite
in fact here on the West Coast at 2100 pst I couldn't "hear" a single CW qso
either on 40, 30 or 20 meters -- my wire antenna doesn't tune to low end of
80.....I'm sure there was cw activity somewhere in the world, but nothing I
could hear! When I was a kid novice in the 60's I'd get on every nite and
always had trouble finding an open spot of the CW bands to call
cq.......other than cw contest weekends, there are nights when all is too
quiet on 80 and 40 meters cw -- I'm surprised the ssb/digital guys haven't
been putting more pressure on the arrl/fcc to grab more of the CW segments.

73.........k6sdw

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Carter [mailto:aa0ri@kansas.net]
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 9:40 AM
To: Mike Siegel; tentec@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] CW-Only Rig?



Mike and group,
I think they would be playing to a very small audience.  There are more and
more open spaces on the cw portion of the band and most of the guys I work
are older than I am (61).  Plus you have to have a TT to really know how
great they are.

It's a nice thought though.

73, Chuck
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Siegel <ki6pr@elite.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 11:16 AM
Subject: [TenTec] CW-Only Rig?


>
> Hi folks -
>
> It seems to me that most T-T fans are also big CW fans. I was thinking the
> other day about how nice it would be if Ten-Tec decided to build an HF
rig,
> totally dedicated and completely optimized for CW operation - in other
> words, the ultimate CW rig.
>
> It also occurs to me that with the rest of the world de-emphasizing CW,
this
> would be just the right time for such a rig, just to help stir up more
> interest in the mode.
>
> Comments? Other thoguhts?
>
> 73 to all,
> Mike KI6PR
> El Rancho R.F., CA
>
>
>
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