Why I Prefer CW

[n4...@aol.com]

I prefer CW because everybody knows how to read 'n write.

[Brett Miller]

Amen.

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Subject: [Chicken Fat Operators-1491] Why I Prefer CW

I prefer CW because everybody knows how to read 'n write.

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[Brett Miller]

I picked up this little poster at the Vibroplex table of a recent hamfest.  Most of you guys have probably already seen it, but it shows a picture of a bug and reads:

"In days of old

When men were bold

and sideband not invented,

The word was passed

by pounding brass,

and all were quite contented."

-Brett

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From: Brett Miller <ki4...@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [Chicken Fat Operators-1491] Why I Prefer CW

[David Eisenberger]

That's NOT the way it goes!!!

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[David Eisenberger]

In days of old, when knights were bold, you dropped your load in the middle of the road and walked away contented!!

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[Brett Miller]

Still happens these days if you're really bold.  In this coop, Chicken don't mean "Chicken!!"

[Brett Miller]

I'm starting to fall in love with the use of the bug (again).  I am quickly realizing (after no doubt thousands before me) that sending accurately with the bug can be much more fun and easier than doing so with the paddle, provided you keep your swing from getting out of control and destroying spacing.  Of course, some folks enjoy a swing and that just makes diversity.

KI4DBK
1017

[Dr.Hess, NG6Y/5]

After being off the air for a few decades and hooking stuff back up,
I'm looking at my Vibroplex again. My Bencher paddle was really good
30 years ago, but for some reason, it doesn't follow my fingers very
well anymore. It must have picked up some rust or grit in it
somewhere.

I bought the Vibroplex Original De Lux at the Burbank Lockheed ham
club in 1977. Someone had won it at a hamfest raffle they had and
they were a CB'er, I mean a SSB'er, and had no use for it, so I got it
at half price. I handled > 10K commercial messages with it at WNU.

Dr.Hess
NG6Y
CFO689

[Joe - aa4nn]

We used hand keys at radio school at Keesler AFB, 1953,
then bugs on the point-to-point CW nets relaying aircraft
position reports throughout the Pacific. Therein lies my affinity
for single lever paddles which I used until I built and used many
versions of keyboards for QRQ CW schedules. Over last year
I have digressed to the bug and have been reminded how pleasant
the feeling is that travels from my fingers to my brain.

Long live vibroplex.
CW op since 1954

de Joe, aa4nn
Lake Wylie, SC

[robert carr]

I was telling my FOG friends that I had ordered a left handed vibroplex from eBay.  They told me I should turn My current bug upside down and it would be fine.  They were right.  Navy radio school 1954     de W5UX --- On Sat, 5/12/12, Joe - aa4nn <aa...@earthlink.net> wrote: