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October 19th 04, 01:36 PM
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Subject: Doing Battle? Can't Resist Posting?
From: (William) Date: 10/19/2004 5:17 AM Central Standard Time Message-id: "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 |
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