In article , "KØHB"
writes:

"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.

Ahem...Brian was referring to a once-regular in here named Dick
Carroll, W0EX.

There are a couple of reasons for this seemingly maverick behaviour.

Heah com de excuses...heah com de excuses! :-)

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.

Not much NEED of that now, is there?

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.

GUFFAW!

Morse code radiotelegraphy STILL sounds like robot-to-robot
communications.

Absolutely NO human-sense clues as to the other operator other
than the monotonic "personality" of dot-dash "weighting." Can't
even tell the gender of the other operator...no voice tone, only the
need to Believe in the "honesty" of the operator that what they send
is "truth."

Sort of like "UR 599 OM!" Pbththththt.

Reason #2: Under "less than ideal" conditions, a little overweighting
with emphasis on the DAH seems to make copy a bit easier.

Your rationalization seems a bit overweight on the DUH.

Fantasy Island, amateur style.

Make certain amateur radio is safe from SEX...force all to learn morse
and qualify by test to exclude any trace of gender. Make certain
amateur radio is safe from humor...use "HI HI" for laughter by qualified
morse testing. Remove all honesty from signal strength-tone "reports."

[morse allows anyone to use another callsign without an immediate
recognition of the fraudulent ID...such as using a spouse's ham call]

Keep the "tradition" firm, fast, held in place by armor-protected
concrete & rebar footing, make all hams "qualify" to operate below
30 MHz by morse test. Just like the OLD, OLD days.