WhaaaaT NOW?

[Douglas Crittendon]

IN MY HUMBLE OPINION:

I know I've not been 'active' much, in the last year or two ... but I do pick up on some of the CW/CFO/QRQ/Bug-KB news hahaha.

    I can so NOT believe anyone having a gripe over sending CW with a keyboard or Bug or two pieces of wire on a desktop stapler ...... hahahahaa.

    I fully understand that ''perfect" code exists and there are those who can create it with a straight key or a bug or a Cootie ... and I fully understand that some of our 'gang' certainly have opinions about what ''sounds good'' perfect weighting, spacing, lead-in, tail etc etc .... my Opinion is very simply that ""IF"" a group of hams are having a ''best cw'' contest and there is a panel of very knowledgeable judges with awards given to those perfect sending guys ............. then 'yes' it matters.

    However If I don't have any trouble understanding your CW and we are able to have a QSO for any length of time, at 'any' speed. Then who am I to judge you? Who am I to say you are a lousy operator, how am I a judge?   Fellows who use foul language and cut others down for no particular reason are far more of a problem to me.

     If it is difficult for me to copy someone sending, I will tell him/her so but only as an obligation we have to each other to keep the "quality of our signals' in the legal ballpark and not because I "think" you might be sending with a device that I don't have or use.  What you send with does not matter to me at all much less getting all 'worked-up' over  about it. 

     I enjoy sending 'slow' with a bug ... up to about 25-30 wpm, keyer and paddle up to from 22-to-40 wpm but after that I surely take pleasure in using a keyboard up to 55 or even 60 wpm but I enjoy 40-50 as my comfortable zone. So cool that there are 'nets' of able operators who enjoy QSOs well over 60wpm even claiming they can do it with a bug WOW good for you my friend. 

     ""PRIDE""" hahahhahaaaaaa ? Again who decides and why? Nothing 'better' to do?  It can be difficult to convince someone that they have a 'bad' signal (key clix, tweets, chirps, grumbles, etc) by seriously recording the sigs/time/date/QRG etc, and sending the op a copy along with email or written explanations (decently worded) ... I would say don't just yell at him/her on the air and try to convince him/her that their signals are poor. All you do is making additional noise and get a bad opinion for yourself ...... if you are serious, do it right. 

     When I joined the CFO back in the early 80's (my number 406)  lots of us used BUGS of all descriptions and made lots of chicken clucks (what's a perfect chicken cluck?)

Hams who enjoyed using a keyboard for QRQ were sort of rare, not non-existent just

more rare . . . o'course back in the day we all had to LEARN CW and pass a test to get our HAM license. I'd have to bet that 'most' if not all new Hams are more attracted to using a keyboard these days. Sure if somebody really want so get into CW as a favorite part of the hobby then learning to make perfect dots and dashes requires a straight key. Even a bug makes automatic dots, 

   Aw I digress.

NJ1T

**Precious Faith by Knowledge of Jesus**

[John Zimmerman]

Thanks Doug.

K0JVX

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