>From Dave G3YMC
There has been some stinging comment on here in recent days on 'dyed in
the wood' CW operators, which perhaps I have to admit to being. The
implication is that if you persue such modes you are a little dated and
should be using fancy digital thingemy modes these days.
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Let us stop the bickering - if you want to develop high tech DSP
algorithms etc that is fine, however please accept that some wish to use
normal amateur techniques as well.
Who are you calling abnormal! Seriously, though, as a very keen
CW operator (I do have a microphone but you'd have to give me a
day's notice to find it), the really encouraging thing about LF is that
it has demonstrated many of the benefits of this fine old mode - low
bandwidth, tolerant of low S/N ratio, simple to execute, and good
fun. Several regular ops have re-learned Morse simply to use the
band. It will be a long time before the more complex modes match
every one of those advantages, even if they excel at one or two.
Mike, G3XDV (IO91VT)
http://www.dennison.demon.co.uk/activity.htm
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