"J. D. B." wrote:

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.

Same is true of some musicians. The older ones
just don't get computers, but they sure can wail up
a Force 5 hurricane on those old analog axes.


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.

Teach kids to cut-and-paste lip-sync trash
with a mouse before we teach them about
JL Hooker? Nah, that's not for me.
I'll hang with the old bands.


Slow Code wrote:
Did a lot of Elmering too, but that's what ham radio is about. Also glad
that we weren't outnumbered by appliance operators. With them, when a
computer goes down it's like the end of the world.

sc