[TenTec] Re: The QSK of SSB

[Mike Hyder -N4NT-]

I just think you need to get a life.

Mike N4NT

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <al_lorona at agilent.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 8:19 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Re: The QSK of SSB



Wow! Arrived home to find a barrage of replies.

Very amazing replies. Let me make a couple of observations. I really wasn't
trolling at all with my question, as I was just curious about an apparent
disparity.

There is a very vocal group that strongly advocates the use of QSK at all
times. But there is no corresponding group doing so for VOX operation on
phone. The main reason cited was the poor VOX operation of many rigs. But
didn't we just get through a thread where many rigs (including some Ten
Tecs) were bashed for their poor QSK operation? So why the difference? Why
am I 'forced' to use QSK no matter what (and no matter what rig I use), yet
I'm allowed not to use VOX, especially if my rig doesn't work right in VOX?
Strange.

Another observation I've made is that many (if not most; many pointed out to
me that there was no clear majority, and point taken) hams who insist on
using QSK so that they can be broken into in the middle of a transmission
don't insist on the same ability during phone operation. In other words,
they are perfectly happy to use PTT and thus *not* be broken into during
phone operation. Strange.

Finally, may I simply state that in listening to CW QSOs on the bands, I
almost *never* hear true QSK operation, where the operators are breaking in
on each other. I'd say maybe 1% of the QSOs I hear are following a true QSK
format. Even during contests. I myself have it turned on all the time, but
the last time I was broken into was years ago. For as critically important a
function as this reflector would have one regard QSK, and even if the
majority of ops have it turned on all the time, it almost never is put into
practice! Strange.

Of course, as soon as many of you read this last paragraph perhaps you will
be on the keyboard telling me that I'm crazy and I don't listen to
such-and-such frequency where QSK is king. Let me save you the trouble.

Al  W6LX

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