[UK-CONTEST] Newcomers to Morse

[Ken Eastty]

Wasn't it much leisurely in the 'good old  days' of the late 50's & 
early 60's when most CW operators still used straight keys, all logging 
was on paper & transmitters had to be 'netted' on to the RX frequency? I 
guess that back then speeds rarely exceeded 15wpm. Probably why Top Band 
contests took all night! At least that's my distant memory of the first 
160m contests that I participated in, but then summers were also better 
in those days. At least it was a good training ground for new amateurs.
I have to admit that I very quickly found that I preferred using an 
El-Bug, mine consisted of nothing more than a couple of PO 3000(?)relays 
& some R's & C's. Our Essex based group (G4KF) used computer (Commodore 
Pet) logging I think sometime in the late '70's.

73...

Ken

G3LVP

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: john reynolds
> To: uk-contest-request at contesting.com
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 10:39 PM
> Subject: Newcomers to morse
>
>
> May I draw to the attention those of you who are seeking to use morse in contests and find the speed a little faster than they are used to.
>
> There is a French CW only Contest this weekend starting 0600 Saturday ending 1800 Sunday 80m --10m.
>
> I have dabbled in this Contest on and off for a number of Years and can confirm that there are quite a lot of stns paticipating who are obviously
> "newbies"  and generally it is a good contest for learners ,also being close Continent 80M and 40M is in good range without lots of power or big antennas.
>
> John G3RSD
>