[TenTec] wither CW?

[Jim Brown K9YC]

On Mon, 24 May 2010 15:03:42 -0400, Dave Humbertson wrote:

>when I find time on a weekend to fire up one of my old 
>vintage rigs or my Corsair II for a little laid back CW

Have you ever considered turning the rig on one night during 
the week for an hour? Theres almost always SOMEONE on 40CW 
to work. If youre on the east coast, you can usually work 
EU with 100W, and on the west coast there are dozens of JAs 
ready to work you in the morning before you head off to 
work. And even when things are tight due to contesting, 30M 
and 17M, both GREAT CW bands, are usually open and always 
untouched by contesters. And its very easy to put up 
antennas for 30 and 17. 

> machine generated (and probably copied) CW

Virtually ALL serious contesters use computers to SEND CW, 
but the vast majority I know of use the computer between 
his/her ears to COPY it. 

Are there some new guys using computer readers? Sure. But 
they are a FEW, not many, and, like Richards, many are 
studying CW and getting their speed up so they can have more 
fun.  

>the fact that there is an op with a pen and paper on the 
>other end.

Huh? Maybe with guys who only get on the air once a year, 
but I havent written down CW since I worked traffic nets in 
the 50s!  REAL CW ops do it in their heads. :) We use a 
computer for LOGGING -- that is, entering calls and 
exchanges that we copy in our heads. 

73,

Jim K9YC