[TenTec] Class A

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 08:14 -0800, Jerry Volpe wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
ROTFLMAO!