PLUS 1 Mark!
Subject: Re: [Amps] Drivel
Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com said:
To evaluate your opinion (and it is nothing but opinion, based on a
religious belief in CW), I'd like to know exactly what emergency
communications operations you have been a part of in the last ten years,
and exactly what your participation entailed. And I'm not asking about
drills or training sessions, I'm talking about real emergencies, like
tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, explosions, wild-land fires, severe
storms, landslides, and earthquakes.
I did not mention any participation in tornadoes, hurricanes, floods,
explosions, wild-land fire, severe storms, landslides and earthquakes.
What I did imply was that I really take exception to debate techniques
like "asked and answered" (I guess that is actually a legal term), or
where the other person puts words in my mouth that I never said, which you
just did, and in addition makes fun of the other person by using terms
like "having a religious belief in CW", all of which are intended to raise
ire, cause emotional responses, and in general just be sarcastic and ugly.
Please stop.
What I said was that using CW in an emergency will not get you killed.
So to reply in kind: Before I can evaluate your ability to even begin to
assess my own, I would need to know whether or not you are a pilot, how
many hours you have, whether you are instrument rated or have a Commercial
or ATP ticket. Then I would need to know when the last time you served
aboard a U.S. Naval Ship, which ones, for how long, and in what capacity,
because that is what I *DID* talk about.
Mark
wa3jpy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Brown" <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2017 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Drivel
On Sat,4/29/2017 11:09 AM, Mark Bitterlich wrote:
But relying on CW is not going to get you killed.
To evaluate your opinion (and it is nothing but opinion, based on a
religious belief in CW), I'd like to know exactly what emergency
communications operations you have been a part of in the last ten years,
and exactly what your participation entailed. And I'm not asking about
drills or training sessions, I'm talking about real emergencies, like
tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, explosions, wild-land fires, severe
storms, landslides, and earthquakes.
FACT: CW is a great mode, no question about its advantages over voice
modes -- IF the operators on both ends are good at it.
FACT: CW is a USELESS mode if there's NOT an operator on BOTH ends who is
good at it.
OPINION: The chances of there being an operator on an FM repeater who can
copy CW are pretty slim. When I'm using VHF/UHF FM, I'm usually the only
one.
OPINION: The chances of SSB ragchewers being competent in CW gets
increasingly slim as the ham population ages. And most SSB ragchewers are
there because they DON'T work cw.
73, Jim K9YC
Founding member CWOPS, #69
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