(Jeffrey Herman) wrote in
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wrote:
What color horse do you use for transportation? Surely you don't use
these newfangled things called cars do you? You know of course, horses
make you a better, more skilled driver, right? Cars are for stupid,
lazy people, who just want to go somewhere, with no care how it easy it
was to get there. And what if there is a gas shortage? The horse can
take you to the hospital to save your life for only the cost of some
grass.

I see you're still using a keyboard to communicate; they've been around
since the mid 1800s. Tell me you're not still using a telephone; that
was invented circa 1880. Verbal communication? That's been in
use for millions of years. Walking upright? A gazillion years.

It's no accident that the most useful things seem to stick around for
quite a long time. For many hams, that includes CW.

Let's have a contest: We'll each build a transmitter from scratch for
our favorite mode; let's see who can get it built and on the air faster,
and collect more QSOs, within say, a week.

Now, just so this is on-topic for .swap: WTB shipboard 500 kHz xmtr,
preferably, a Mackay Marine emergency rig.

No 73 for you,
Jeff KH6O


Thanks Jeff, I forgot how old the keyboard was. Using RF to send CW is
much more modern. I guess the CW haters are just lazy.

SC

On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:54:50 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:22:40 GMT, Slow Code wrote:

(Jeffrey Herman) wrote in
:

wrote:
What color horse do you use for transportation? Surely you don't use
these newfangled things called cars do you? You know of course, horses
make you a better, more skilled driver, right? Cars are for stupid,
lazy people, who just want to go somewhere, with no care how it easy it
was to get there. And what if there is a gas shortage? The horse can
take you to the hospital to save your life for only the cost of some
grass.

I see you're still using a keyboard to communicate; they've been around
since the mid 1800s. Tell me you're not still using a telephone; that
was invented circa 1880. Verbal communication? That's been in
use for millions of years. Walking upright? A gazillion years.

It's no accident that the most useful things seem to stick around for
quite a long time. For many hams, that includes CW.

Let's have a contest: We'll each build a transmitter from scratch for
our favorite mode; let's see who can get it built and on the air faster,
and collect more QSOs, within say, a week.

Now, just so this is on-topic for .swap: WTB shipboard 500 kHz xmtr,
preferably, a Mackay Marine emergency rig.

No 73 for you,
Jeff KH6O


Thanks Jeff, I forgot how old the keyboard was. Using RF to send CW is
much more modern. I guess the CW haters are just lazy.

nope the use of morsecode goes even futher back than keybaord but then
you know nothing SC

SC
http://kb9rqz.blogspot.com/


Yea. Morse code goes wayyyyy back. Clear back to when the natives
were beating on hollow logs. Depending on the way the wind was
blowing, they could talk to aunt Ug, or Cousin UG, or even their
brothers uG and Grunt.

All I'm trying to get at is there are more than one way to
communicate. CW in the world of HAM is definitely and ONLY ONE way to
do so. How about this then, just to make it even:

Everybody has to set up and communicate via SSTV at X number of
frames per minute, just to offset the requirement for CW. Equal time
for equal privileges! Just like the politicians trying to get votes.
.. . Every radio and TV station has to offer equal time to each person
and each issue. No one issue is more important than any other. . .
just UNLIKE Ham, where CW rules and all others Drool. How darn
lop-sided can it get!

Please now, don't get me wrong. I don't dislike Code. I strictly
feel that it's blown WAY out of proportion and has become an excuse
rather than a feature. One has to step back and realize that there
are more than one way to communicate with somebody else, and that
there is no perfect or required way to do so, UNLESS YOU OWN A HAM
RADIO. .. . Geez folks. Isn't it time to let that poor ol' dead
horse finally lie down?

Fred