On 20/01/2016 01:15, Fred Roberts wrote:

Have taken part in a number of highly successful high profile special
event stations the one thing that excited visitors both old and new was
CW. Nothing else came close, we had hordes of kids lining up to have
their name transmitted in morse and to play with oscillators. When
running pileups with qso's being displayed in real time on a computer
display adults were amazed at:

1. The distances involved
2. The speed of contacts
3. The bouncing around between countries/continents

Digimodes bore the public and someone talking on sideband/FM/DV/repeater
is just a **** talking sh!te into a microphone.

CW is the mode par excellence for attracting new comers.

It is Morse QSOs that the traditional friendliness still survives.

It is in morse code, home construction and tinkering that friendliness
and real amateur radio survives.

What an excellent description.

WHS in spades.


--
Spike

"They thought that because they had power, they had wisdom"

- with apologies to Stephen Vincent Benet