[TenTec] The QSK of SSB

[Dave Edwards]

So you've established that you prefer QSK. So do I!
The original post said "the majority of cw ops prefer QSK"
Which I still hold is far from correct.
There is life outside TenTec, and the average YaeComWood does not
have acceptable QSK...without a relay clicking away.
Nor does the average SB220 or TL922....at all.
...Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Brown" <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] The QSK of SSB


> 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
>
>
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