[TenTec] The QSK of SSB

[Jim Brown]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 00:52:58 -0500, Grant Youngman wrote:

>I have to admit I prefer QSK on CW.  

A CW operator who isn't using QSK on nets, in contests, and chasing DX is a LID. 

When you don't have QSK, you are still transmitting when the station you are calling has 
already come back to someone else.  When you don't have QSK, no one can break you in 
the middle of a longer than necessary CQ. When you don't have QSK, you don't hear QRM 
on your frequency while you are transmitting. 

QSK is also of great benefit for general operating. The other station can break you to let you 
know he has a phone call, or that his XYL is calling him, or whatever. You also hear another 
LID tuning up on your frequency. And so on. 

I've been a ham for 49 years, and have operated QSK for 48 of those years. It is one of the 
major advantages of CW. 

Jim Brown  K9YC