Subject: Doing Battle? Can't Resist Posting?
From: (William)
Date: 10/19/2004 5:17 AM Central Standard Time
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"KØHB" wrote in message
nk.net...
"William" wrote
Unless you have an Extra Class operator who vows to do his best to
make machine copy impossible. Ever heard of such stupidity?
I've never heard of that, but I have heard of skilled operators who
make no effort to send machine perfect code, and who in fact take some
pride in sending Morse with some personality.
There are a couple of reasons for this seemingly maverick behaviour.
Reason #1: Before the days of "electronic precision" in keying, Morse
was a manual art. An operators fist was a second "signature", and many
operators cultivated a distinctive style. This was especially true
where more than one operator shared a single call sign. You could tell
who was on watch at KFS by the fist of the operator.
The need or desire to develop a distinctive style because of a shared
call sign should not have had much play in the amateur service where
each operator is assigned a unique call sign.
If you wish to speak of other services morse code use, then there are
other venues for that.
BRAIN! Violating your own position on the discussion of other radio
service's practice and policies? Why just last week you were invokling this
"broadband" attitude about "radio" in order to accomodate your bunk-buddy
mentor, Lennie the Licenseless.
Have you since changed your position on the discussion of "radio" issues?
Even with the advent of electronic keyers, some of this old preference
exists, and I must admit I get pretty bored with the
machine-perfect-sterile-without-personality Morse we hear today. It
sounds like robots talking to robots. If you ever heard the melodic
fist of pioneers like W4KFC, you would not have asked the question.
grin.
Wunnerful.
Reason #2: Under "less than ideal" conditions, a little overweighting
with emphasis on the DAH seems to make copy a bit easier.
Perhaps.
No "perhaps" to it.
Those of us proficient in Morse Code techniques know this to be true.
Yet Dick stated that his mission was to make his fist uncopyable to
no-code Technicians with a machine reader.
OK.
Dick's no longer with us (73 es GL OM). YOUR point is...?!?!
Steve, K4YZ