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From: "Mike Dennison" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 10:14 AM
Subject: LF: Re: REAL CW
G3KEV wrote:
>Most of those that used to be active on LF and are now QRT
>have gone because of the lack of CW. Why does the LAZY
>MANS mode prevail when most of those using QRS are good
>enough signals to work normal CW.
I often call CQ using normal CW, despite the location of my shack making
it
difficult to concentrate on CW amongst all of the family noises. However,
an
experience this morning reminded me of why several of us were put off CW
some years ago.
I was working newcomer John, G3JRL, in Weymouth, who was 549. During the
QSO
someone whose callsign is old enough that he should know better called CQ
twice over the top at S9. He then seemingly deliberately wobbled his VFO
back and forth across the frequency, defeating my attempts to use filters
to
fix the problem.
Does that sound familiar to some of the old hands on 136kHz?
I'm going back to QRSS where I can multi-task, coexist with the family
noises and gain several dB at the same time.
When I called CQ this morning the freq was clear, G3JRL was not audible at
my qth, I did however hear you later but you were working well outside my
filter b/width (20 hz). There was someone else tuning up fairly strong
probably resonating an antenna , and I did hear this going on earlier in the
week for long periods.
Probably your friend G3LDO burning the damp out of his wet coil, my loop
indicated the qrm South from me.
There was not a trace of G3JRL but ON6ND was 599, DK7SU 559, F6BWO 539,
DL1EIE 579 all worked and YU7AR 559 not worked this time but worked before
on CW.
As you say you are probably better of on QRS the morse sending is BETTER !!
G3KEV
Mike, G3XDV
http://www.lf.thersgb.net
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