[TenTec] 'Real CW?'

[DaveHeller]

I'd imagine your experience and mine apply to most everyone, though most
seem to learn the code a bit faster.  As for T-T CW superiority, I'd
tried various rice boxes - Yaseu = pure garbage; Kenwood = phase noise;
Icom, not all that bad but the interior complexity!  I kept going back
to my Viking II and Drake 2b;  then one of the locals loaned me a
Triton.  A transceiver that spoke CW!  My first call to TN for advice on
a minor problem was the icing.   

-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ynkedragon at aol.com
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 8:34 AM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] 'Real CW?'

In a message dated 04/10/2005 13:33:26 Eastern Daylight Time,
k3tx at fast.net 
writes:

<<  It took me nearly forever to get good enough to pass 5 wpm.
 . . .  So just to prove I could work G frequencies I tried
CW. . . And just like most others, once the speed got to a comfortable
level I
had learned that CW was it. >>

Dave,

Your experience parallels mine.  Almost FOUR years to learn 5 wpm CW.
Got 
the general after several attempts and swore I'd never work CW again.
But, the 
station I had back then (as a struggling college student) wasn't too 
competitive on phone (Johnson Ranger into a long wire) but worked pretty
well on CW.  

Still, I wasn't a great CW op (still don't consider myself that even
tho' I 
now contest op at around 40 WPM) but got a whole lot better after
learning and 
passing the 20 WPM test for extra.  Then, and only then, did CW become
an 
effective means of communications for me.

Proficiency turns many chores into effortless performance, whether
speaking 
French, changing the oil in the car, swimming a mile or working the weak
ones 
down on 7.001 MHz.  For me proficiency began to happen > 20 wpm.

Of course, CW is better with a TenTec.

73,  Blair k3yd
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