On Dec 3, 7:22*pm, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:45:06 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."



wrote:
Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:39:36 -0500, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

And they said CW was a dead mode.

HA!!! *:)
Dead only because of no-code licenses.
I'd guess it will be almost completely gone in another 20 or 30 years
as our generation goes SK. * It will become a fringe niche like AM
phone. * The good news is that it will only need about 25 KHz per
band.
NEVER!!!

Once you get hooked on the hi tech digital modes with excellent error
detection/correction, automated retry, adaptive speed/modulation, and
uncanny weak signal ability, it is really hard to look back. *

I am truly amazed every time I see an error free EMAIL popping out of
the PACTOR from a barely audible signal. *I will concede that being
able to build a low power CW transmitter from a bag of junk parts is
kind of interesting also, but it's like comparing a Model T with a
Ferrari. * The Model T is interesting because it runs at all, and the
Ferrari is interesting because it runs so well.

A Ferrari is like a woman's reproduction system. *It is very complicated
and seems like it is in the shop half of the time.

You mean that's it's in the shop every 27 days?

Or sooner?