[TenTec] Class A

[Jerry Volpe]

Grant, I have to call you on this one.

Ahhhh, then arguably we could say that taking advantage of the serial 
port in our Orions for rig control, or using contesting/logging software 
during a contest is NOT REALLY CONTESTING! because that isn't how we use 
to do it! And to be a real contester one must log and dupe the OLD way 
or they are just another...

"nothing more than some schmuck typing on a keyboard"


Seriously, as an engineer at Heath in the early 80s two of my first projects where the u5010 memory keyer (what is this memory stuff about?) and the HD-8999 CW Keyboard. Both were big products for Heath at the time.... both allowed CW ops a degree of relief when it came to hand fatigue and movement coordination.

Now, nearly 30 years later I am becoming an OF at 55 with advancing chronic arthritis in my hands... not so bad yet that I can't ever send with my paddles, but bad enough that my frequency of errors is steadily increasing. Yet I can still 'hear' the music and love the mode, yet I have become sadly reluctant to get on the air as there are others who feel like Grant does. And I hate to disappoint! Guess hams like me should just hang up the mode, right? Hate to become...

"nothing more than some schmuck typing on a keyboard."

Oh, and finally, just when I get enough energy to come back to this reflector as sometimes there are some gems of knowledge/experience t be had, I run into....
nothing more than some schmuck typing on a keyboard! :)

Jerry, KG6TT


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Ralph Jerald "Jerry" Volpe
Amateur Radio Operator KG6TT
ARRL Member & VE
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