Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/25

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Subject: [Leica] [WAS sweet barking cheese!] NOW OT--Why ham radio code is like a Leica
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Sun Feb 25 10:57:25 2007
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At 12:09 AM 2/25/2007, Howard Ritter wrote:

 >
 >Well, in a word, no--on both counts. The great majority of amateur
 >operators don't use CW, although all of us had to know it at the time
 >of our licensing exams. Most of us go straight to 'phone and never
 >look back.

Interesting, Howard, and thank you.  Your 
information is contrary to that set out on the 
NPR story on this last week.  NPR's interviewees 
included a couple of long-time amatuers and an 
official from the ARRL.  They did interview a 
female ham who minimized the use of CW but the 
others dissented from her position.  They also 
demonstrated one of the computer programs and the 
ham using it stressed how effective it was (until his computer crashed!).

Marc


msmall@aya.yale.edu
Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!



In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] sweet barking cheese!)
Message from marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small) ([Leica] sweet barking cheese!)
Message from hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter) ([Leica] [WAS sweet barking cheese!] NOW OT--Why ham radio code is like a Leica)