07-07-14 15:36 Roy Witt wrote to Ed Vance about Storage   
      
    RW> @MSGID: <53BBCA82.670.amtradio@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    RW> Greetings Ed!   
   Howdy! Roy,   
      
    EV>> As I have been reading this Thread the thought has come to my mind   
    EV>> of how many participate in CW Contests?   
      
    RW>> I've done that with a DX group. They were Extras, I was a   
    RW>> Novice, then a Technician and  finally a General.   
      
    EV> I was asked to keep the Log beside a High Speed CW OT OP the first   
    EV> Field Day I participated in after I got back home from the Navy.   
      
    RW> c1960?   
      
   Yep!, it was on Field Day in 1963.   
      
    EV> The Op would ask me, "did You get that?" and I say "sure".   
      
    EV> That went on for a few contacts and when I told him when I was in   
    EV> Navy Radioman School my CW RCVing Speed got up to 26WPM, after I told   
    EV> him that he never ask me anything again except if the station he was   
    EV> calling was a Dupe contact. They gave me a Flip-Top Telephone Index   
    EV> for a Dupe Log, to write the Call Signs down of the Stations we   
    EV> already worked on that frequency, and usually I'd let him know if the   
    EV> Station had already been worked before he'd have the chance to ask   
    EV> me.   
      
    RW> CW conversations are fun. But I never got that excited about   
    RW> them.   
      
   I've said this B4, so please bear with me again:   
      
   "when about 6 Hams going to the same High School (most of them Novices,   
   and a couple of Generals) decided to have a 80M CW Round Table QSO on a   
   Saturday Morning with a request that no one tries to send faster than   
   everyone in the QSO can copy easily.".   
      
   I was a Novice in 1959, and That Round Table QSO Was One Of My Most   
   Precious Memories of Amateur Radio I've had in ALL my Years of being   
   Licensed as an Amateur Radio Operator.   
      
   A few months later Al Hall K4CSH came down on 3720 Kcs to find out if   
   any of us there were interest in starting up a Traffic Net on that   
   frequency that the old Kentucky Novice Net (KNN) used to be held on.   
      
   Several of us were interested and Al invited us to his QTH to get   
   acquainted with each other and to learn more about Handling Message   
   Traffic.   
      
   I was a KNN Member (also Net Control Station one day a week) until I   
   left for Navy Boot Camp.   
      
    EV> Back when I listened to the W1AW Code Practice audio a few months   
    EV> ago, I found out how rusty I was at copying High Speed CW.   
      
    RW> Heh! Sometimes I have a hard time copying the IDer on a   
    RW> repeater and have to listen to it a couple of times to get it.   
    RW> Now that's rusty!   
      
   Practice makes perfect, and when I listened to that High Speed CW XMSN   
   on that day, I found out I wasn't perfect.   
      
    EV>> I'd think that would be a fair way to find out if CW is a lost art   
    EV>> or not, don't You think?   
      
    RW>> It might help to clean up some of the man-made noisy interfence   
    RW>> on the phone bands.   
      
    EV> I'd say have everyone go back to using AM then.    hi   
      
    RW> Unnnn, that would only add to the noise...   
      
   AM Hams know how to Zero Beat some ones signal so everyone is On Freq.   
      
   Unless I actually know what someones Voice Sounds Like when I am   
   listening to them talk on SSB I never can Tune them in correctly.   
      
   When I bought my first SSB Rig it HAD to have a RIT Circuit in it   
   because I didn't want to start Creepine Up or Down the Band with the   
   Main Tuning Knob when I was talking to someone on SSB, as i had heard   
   happening many times before when I was just listening to Sidebanders   
   having a QSO and noticed when they replied to someone during the QSO   
   that the frequency the stations were using kept changing and changing.   
      
   If Manufacturers would put a Carrier Control Knob on the Front Panels   
   of their SSB gear so at the start of a QSO a station could Increase the   
   Carrier just enough so the other station(s) could Zero Beat it,   
   and then Reset the Control to the Minimum position,   
   I'd think it would be of Great Help for the person on the Receiving End   
   to know what that Ham he was talking to sounded like.   
      
   I know my opinions ouly count with Me and Me Only.   
   73 es thanks for reading.   
   NNNN   
      
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