"John Smith" wrote in message
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OMG:

I never thought about that, with the great influx of all these new
hams firing up their keys and going CW on us, phone might be in
danger!!! grin

John



Hello, John

Nope, but I've never encountered a foul word nor bad operating procedure on
cw. 160 used to be fine, even on voice mode, but other bands were ... well,
a bit different. With the 14.313 gang going a while back plus the 75 meter
folks .... well, 80 meter cw sounds good to me LOL.

The nice thing about cw is that there is seldom, if ever, rude operation
(contests don't count. Never cared for 'em and it is going to be hot and
heavy in a contest. That is part of the game. Not rude, just hot and heavy
and sometimes a bit chaotic). SSB needs close to 3 kHz of room and the
power is spread over that 3 kHz (albeit not evenly). You don't need more
than a few hundred Hertz for cw, so once you set your bandwidth to 300 Hz or
less, you've just obtained a good 10 dB attenuation of the guy trying to
irritate you. Of course, you can reduce bandwidth a bit more, but the audio
isn't evenly spread over the spectrum. In many cases you can gain 20 dB or
more advantage. Mike was running 1 kw input vs my 75 watts. His bandwidth
was 50% in the carrier (not to be heard) and the remaining 50% of his power
was spread over 6 kHz as he was running am. I didn't even hear him.

With a good notch filter, he didn't even have to hear me. He could have
carried on a conversation on am with another station whilst I chatted with
the other guy with virtually no mutual interference. Four stations in the
same "channel" .... with no interference.

Dang! I just may become more pro-code LOL



73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA