wrote:
What color horse do you use for transportation? Surely you don't use
these newfangled things called cars do you? You know of course, horses
make you a better, more skilled driver, right? Cars are for stupid, lazy
people, who just want to go somewhere, with no care how it easy it was
to get there. And what if there is a gas shortage? The horse can take
you to the hospital to save your life for only the cost of some grass.

I see you're still using a keyboard to communicate; they've been around
since the mid 1800s. Tell me you're not still using a telephone; that
was invented circa 1880. Verbal communication? That's been in
use for millions of years. Walking upright? A gazillion years.

It's no accident that the most useful things seem to stick around for
quite a long time. For many hams, that includes CW.

Let's have a contest: We'll each build a transmitter from scratch for
our favorite mode; let's see who can get it built and on the air faster,
and collect more QSOs, within say, a week.

Now, just so this is on-topic for .swap: WTB shipboard 500 kHz xmtr,
preferably, a Mackay Marine emergency rig.

No 73 for you,
Jeff KH6O

(Follow-up set to just .policy; please abide.)


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*Chief Petty Officer, U.S. Coast Guard, Dept. of Homeland Security*
*Mathematics Lecturer, University of Hawaii System*