"KØHB" wrote in message
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"K4YZ" wrote


I guess the fact that the Morse guys did it faster and with 100%
accuracy doesn't account for anything, eh?


Doesn't account for much!

It's kind of like a speed contest between a turtle and a snail --- mildly
interesting, but inconsequential when comparing them to the speed of a
cheetah.

dit dit

de Hans, K0HB





Hello, Hans

Very true. One interesting thing of note - text messaging I'd consider
similar to cw in one thing - it may be fun, but not highly useful. If one
needs to send a lot of text, a computer and the Internet just might be
considerably faster (assuming one can touch type at a reasonable rate). Via
radio, there are digital modes, of course, and text can be reliably sent
much faster with many of the digital modes (even the very dated RTTY).

I have to chuckle at the length of this thread; I thought it an interesting
link and figured there would be a couple of cw detractors that would answer,
but the thread turned out a bit longer than I figured. I keep forgetting
how heated the cw vs no cw arguement can get.

I'd have responded earlier, but yesterday was my birthday and .... well, I
probably consumed enough beer to build a 160 meter half wave beer can
vertical

Fortunately, the better half didn't get upset



73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA

Jim Hampton wrote:


I'd have responded earlier, but yesterday was my birthday and ....
well, I
probably consumed enough beer to build a 160 meter half wave beer can
vertical


Ah yes, a vertical 'beverage' antenna! Our FD group had one for 20M,
but we had to quit using it when our FD QTH changed to the football
field of a local High School.

Anyhow, Happy Birthday!

73, de Hans, K0HB

"KØHB" wrote in message
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Jim Hampton wrote:


I'd have responded earlier, but yesterday was my birthday and ....
well, I
probably consumed enough beer to build a 160 meter half wave beer can
vertical


Ah yes, a vertical 'beverage' antenna! Our FD group had one for 20M,
but we had to quit using it when our FD QTH changed to the football
field of a local High School.

Anyhow, Happy Birthday!

73, de Hans, K0HB


Happy B-day guy.

Our club group built a 3 element 160 meter yagi out of steel beer cans for a
Field Day one year.

Dan/W4NTI

Dan,

I must ask ... did you rotate the whole county to turn the beam?


73,
Jim AA2QA


"Dan/W4NTI" wrote in message
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"KØHB" wrote in message
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Jim Hampton wrote:


I'd have responded earlier, but yesterday was my birthday and ....
well, I
probably consumed enough beer to build a 160 meter half wave beer can
vertical


Ah yes, a vertical 'beverage' antenna! Our FD group had one for 20M,
but we had to quit using it when our FD QTH changed to the football
field of a local High School.

Anyhow, Happy Birthday!

73, de Hans, K0HB


Happy B-day guy.

Our club group built a 3 element 160 meter yagi out of steel beer cans for
a
Field Day one year.

Dan/W4NTI

"Jim Hampton" wrote in message
...
Dan,

I must ask ... did you rotate the whole county to turn the beam?


73,
Jim AA2QA

I don't remember.......

Dan/W4NTI

"Dan/W4NTI" wrote


Our club group built a 3 element 160 meter yagi out of steel beer cans for a
Field Day one year.


Hey Dan,

Do you know how to tell the difference between a fairy-tale and a sea-story?

Scroll down
































A fairy-tale starts out --- "Once upon a time....."

A sea-story starts out --- "Now this is no ****....."


dit dit

73, de Hans, K0HB

Naaa, it is true--I was the one who drank all the beer so they'd have those
cans to use... grin

Warmest regards,
John

"KØHB" wrote in message
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"Dan/W4NTI" wrote


Our club group built a 3 element 160 meter yagi out of steel beer cans
for a Field Day one year.


Hey Dan,

Do you know how to tell the difference between a fairy-tale and a
sea-story?

Scroll down
































A fairy-tale starts out --- "Once upon a time....."

A sea-story starts out --- "Now this is no ****....."


dit dit

73, de Hans, K0HB

"KØHB" wrote in message
ink.net...

"Dan/W4NTI" wrote


Our club group built a 3 element 160 meter yagi out of steel beer cans
for a Field Day one year.


Hey Dan,

Do you know how to tell the difference between a fairy-tale and a
sea-story?

Scroll down
































A fairy-tale starts out --- "Once upon a time....."

A sea-story starts out --- "Now this is no ****....."


dit dit

73, de Hans, K0HB





Wow Hans, thats the same way in the Army and Air Force. The Marines
believe anything.....just kidding.

Dan/W4NTI

"Dan/W4NTI" wrote:
"KØHB" wrote in message
ink.net...

"Dan/W4NTI" wrote


Our club group built a 3 element 160 meter yagi out of steel beer cans
for a Field Day one year.


Hey Dan,

Do you know how to tell the difference between a fairy-tale and a
sea-story?

Scroll down
































A fairy-tale starts out --- "Once upon a time....."

A sea-story starts out --- "Now this is no ****....."


dit dit

73, de Hans, K0HB





Wow Hans, thats the same way in the Army and Air Force. The Marines
believe anything.....just kidding.

Dan/W4NTI

















This looks like submarine duty down here.

Jim Hampton wrote:
"K=D8HB" wrote in message
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One interesting thing of note - text messaging I'd consider
similar to cw in one thing - it may be fun, but not highly
useful.

I disagree!

They're both highly useful. Just in different ways.

If one
needs to send a lot of text, a computer and the Internet just
might be
considerably faster (assuming one can touch type at a
reasonable rate).

Of course! But then you need a readout device.

Usefulness depends on the application.

Via
radio, there are digital modes, of course, and text can be
reliably sent
much faster with many of the digital modes (even the very dated
RTTY).

Sure - if someone has the equipment handy.

But the whole digital-mode-faster thing is kind of bogus in my view.
It's like saying that since we have cars, there's no reason to have
competitions where people run anymore. Heck, why doesn't everyone in
the Olympic marathon use rollerblades? The times would drop
dramatically.


I have to chuckle at the length of this thread; I thought it
an interesting
link and figured there would be a couple of cw detractors that
would answer,
but the thread turned out a bit longer than I figured. I keep
forgetting
how heated the cw vs no cw arguement can get.

The telling part is that the anticode folks call the test "rigged"
and other nonsense in an attempt to discredit what happened. But
the plain simple fact is that a couple of good Morse Code
operators, going about 1/3 the world-record speed, were faster
than the *world record holders* in text messaging.

What they missed is that the whole point of the segment was to
show that "newer" isn't always "faster/better/easier" and that
"older" doesn't equal "useless". The outfits on the two teams
were a visual way of adding to that.

One member of the Morse Code team was reportedly at Dayton
in his telegrapher outfit.

I'd have responded earlier, but yesterday was my birthday
and .... well, I
probably consumed enough beer to build a 160 meter half wave
beer can vertical

Hope it was happy. Trouble is they put beer in aluminum cans now...