Dee Flint wrote:
"Dave Heil" wrote in message
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an_old_friend wrote:

Dave Heil wrote:


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Dave Heil wrote:


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Of course you haven't they don't talk about that in Morse Code

During FD 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005, none of the ops present sat about
chatting in morse code. I use any number of modes in my amateur radio
operation, Mark.

You do as you can; I'll do as I choose.


I can use any mode I want Dave we have had that dicussion before even
CW if I like

Super, Mark. Next Field Day, you do your CW thing with a PC and morse
reading software. I'll do it the old-fashioned way and work CW only.
We'll see if you can really operate CW or whether you're blowing smoke.
If I don't beat you by a 10:1 QSO ratio, I'll relent and consider you a
real CW op. I'm even willing to proclaim it here if you accept the
challenge. Logs must be submitted to the ARRL.


but of course you have no sense of humor either

I'm responding to you, aren't I?

Dave K8MN


More likely you could beat him 100:1 since even I could probably manage 10:1
as I suspect that you are far better than I.

That'd be tight in a 24 hour event, Dee. As to better (faster?), I've
been doing it a lot longer. I was a contester before my traveling days
but the pileups during the African years gave me plenty of opportunity
to practice. I think the best 48 hour QSO total I've made was in '91 or
so from Sierra Leone with something like 3500 CW QSOs. I operated 40 or
so hours of the contest. I'm actually a lot better Phone op. :-)

One member of our club set a
new personal best last Field Day of 1000 contacts on 40 meters mixed CW and
phone. At least half of them were CW.

He's doing really well, especially on a single band with typical FD
antennas.

N8NN and I've split the FD operating time in 2002, 2003 (those years
with K8MN in '02 and N8NN in '03) and 2004 (in '04 we ran CW under the
W8CAL call with the local ARES group). I spent part of this year's
event at K4CO in northern Kentucky.

Dave K8MN