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July 15th 03, 07:31 AM

(N2EY) wrote in message . com...

You may not be too fond of CW, and CW ops, but contrary to rumor we do
not eat each other.

As if. You're obviously 'way overdue for a CQ WW CW or two James. See
my prior comments about curing virginity . .

well, why would you think that would
happen, unless there's a CW contest going on?

Coupla possible reasons:

1) Propagation isn't so hot. (CW really does have an advantage over
all commonly-used forms of analog 'phone in this regard)
2) There's a 'phone contest going on, and most of the 'phone ops are
working the contest - on another band.
3) The 'phone bands become obnoxious enough that folks go to CW just
to have a decent QSO.

Thank you for inviting me into this one.

I think it was last Thursday (Wednesday?)afternoon, no contests
anywhere and I'm lounging out under the monster maple tree which
supports my 20M Field Day dipole schlepping around the band with my
recently acquired el cheapo portable 100w wunderbox. It dawned on me
that I hadn't done any ssb with the thing up to that point and that I
should stir up an ssb contact or two for modulation checks, TX audio
gain vs. splatter, the usual. The phone band was a garbage pit, noise,
qrn, nobody home, flare = ON in a big way. SSB DX with 100w and a
dipole? Bwaaahaha! Not on yer life.

Finally I ran into a group of old fart 1x2s from the midwest with
decent signals on 14.188 yakking with a local, broke in and got my the
audio critques.

Having done that I spun the knob counterclockwise back down the band
and within ten minutes I'd beeped my way into logging an Estonian, a
deep Russian and a South African. The 9J2 got away from me becuse he'd
lit up the spots nets before I got there but I ain't done chasing him.

That's the way it is. That's the way it's always been. God bless all
you Morse crippled out there in radioland, less QRM for me.

73 de Jim, N2EY

Yo Jim - The local was Alan Gray w3bv who spun the k3jh pole around on
Royersford when I checked in. We yakked for the best part of an hour,
he's been here, we shared a lotta giggles abt the lurks we still deal
with.