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"J. D. B." wrote in
: I know what you mean about Elmering. Many of the new hams had to Elmer the old CW only hams who had no idea how to operate a computer or even use all the great new digital modes. Some of the dinos had trouble trying to figure out the solid state rigs. They kept looking around for things to tune like it was some boat anchor tube rig - LOL!!! It's amazing how the dinos can operate a key, but they can't get the hang of a mouse. We eventually had to give up. Can't teach the old dogs new tricks so the younger and newer hams used the digital modes and the old dinos stuck to their CW. Although the CW types were amazed how PSK31 could be copied even when you could not hear the other station. They admitted that you can't copy CW if you cannot hear it. I think we made a lot of progress on FD. Finally the dinos admitted that there are modes that are better and more capable than CW. One old guy even said we should give up on the CW testing and test new hams how to use a computer and the new digital modes and that was more relevant for today's ham radio. I know you're right. They where doing great until the computers crashed then the new hams looked at us old hams, blank stares on their faces wondering what to do. They thought Field day was over at the point. Then us dino's took over and showed them what ham radio really was. Some nickle extra's even said they were going practice building their code skills again. They saw you can work stations on code that you can't work on phone or PSK31. We taught them how to solder on PL-259s and tune portable antenna & trim wire antennas. We laughed when they lifted up the tri-bander and then had to take it down again to connect up the coax. That was funny. SC |