[TenTec] YACWD and real CW ops

[Jim Davis]

Right On Rick!!!

But with the messed-up FCC wanting to de-regulate OUR
hobby even more with eliminating the 5wpm for GENERAL
and leaving the 5wpm as is for the so-called
"Top-License" it's a joke!!!

Apparently most everybody in today's society does want
SOMETHING for NOTHING!!!

Jim/nn6ee
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--- Rick and Karen Bunn <RRBunn at cox.net> wrote:
> Again.... I do not do much code, got into the hobby
> to say technically
> challenged.  Hated the 5wpm when I passed my novice
> exam in 1971. Took me 6
> attempts to pass the 13 wpm and 8 attempts over 5
> years to pass 20 wpm.  I
> only did 13 to use SSB on HF and only did 20 to
> become a VE.
> 
> Keep the code, this is needed to keep some degree of
> difficulty in getting
> into our hobby and this keeps the nar-do-wells out! 
> 
> 
> Further, Lets make the General and Extra written
> tests mean something.  Too
> may of our new Generals and Extras can't put up a
> dipole, have no idea what
> a filter is or how a transistor works.  Having a
> technical discussion at
> what use to be a General class level leaves half of
> the Generals and Extras
> I know looking at the ceiling and wishing to be
> somewhere else.
> 
> 73 Rick 
> N4ASx
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Paul - W8KC
> Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2005 1:21 AM
> To: 'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'
> Subject: [TenTec] YACWD and real CW ops
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Ken Brown
> 
> >>I did not even start to like CW until I got to
> about 10 WPM or more...
> 
> 
> 
> I was not going to jump into YACWD (Yet Another CW
> Debate) but Brother Ken
> speaks the truth.  Ken's experience is identical to
> mine and probably to the
> vast majority of hams who slogged through the Novice
> exam and worked up to
> the 13 WPM General test.
> 
> This is also what I claim as what will be the root
> cause of the ultimate
> demise of CW.  It's just too much of a bother to
> work toward CW proficiency
> when the microphone is also plugged into the HF rig.
> 
> I back this up with the fact that in the dozens
> amateurs in the local ham
> clubs that I belong to or are familiar with, I know
> of only ONE "no code"
> era ham who can send and receive CW at 20+ WPM.
> 
> 30 years ago, I recall folks saying that once a
> Novice got a Technician
> license and a 2M FM rig, they were pretty much
> doomed.  They became what
> were jokingly known as a tech-for-life.  These folks
> would be on the
> repeaters all of the time TALKING about upgrading to
> 13 WPM General, but
> rarely achieving that goal.
> 
> Of course that changed a few years ago with the 5
> WPM General and Extra. The
> techs-for-life were given a new life when they
> gained HF privileges.  Except
> that their Morse skills never improved.
> 
> That's just my observation here near Detroit.  I
> know that there are
> probably many instances for "no-code" era hams that
> have gone on to actually
> become CW proficient.  Perhaps they even love CW as
> much as old-time TenTec
> users do.  
> 
> Yet I bet that if you examine them, you'll find some
> other driver that
> motivated them toward CW proficiency.  QRP operation
> comes to mind as an
> excellent niche where you'd find more "new" hams
> that operate and enjoy CW
> at what the rest of us consider a comfortable speed.
>  
> Because CW at 5 WPM is, well... painful.  
> 
> If you want to encourage CW operation, you gotta
> bite the bullet every now
> and then and work some newish-prefixed call who is
> fumbling on a straight
> key at those speeds.
> 
> Even to this day I recall the shock experienced as a
> Novice when my pitiful
> 7 or 8 WPM CQ was answered flawlessly by a guy with
> a 1x2 callsign.
> 
> 73 =paul= W8KC
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