I remember in the days where high tech for CW was a pair of paddles and
a Hallicrafters TO-Keyer.
I was able to teach myself to write left handed while the paddles were
still right handed. Never got the CW to be right left handed.
But i would be sending with the right while the left was filling in the
log and that giant dupe sheet.
Letter after the number.....
Joe WB9SBD
On 10/12/2023 4:28 PM, Zack Widup wrote:
I remember back in the late 60's when you had to keep dupe sheets for Field
Day. Everything was on paper. We had huge sheets of paper that had each
callsign area (0 through 9) divided into columns with A through Z.
Oftentimes a non-licensed person would be keeping the dupe sheets. We would
just show them how it worked and tell them what to enter.
Over the years I've worked mostly CW on Field Day. A lot of people were
amazed that I could work people and log them on a computer at the same
time. They didn't know that I'm used to it.
73, Zack W9SZ
On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 4:16 PM Stan Zawrotny<k4sbz.stan@gmail.com> wrote:
Our club used loggers during Field Day as a way to get newbies
partially involved with the QSO. Newbies would have trouble making the
contact and working the computer at the same time. Half an hour to an hour
of logging gave newbies a chance to get some experience before taking the
mic. They would work with the op to determine the call and exchange. Worked
well with S&P, but with an experienced op running, sometimes the logger
would get behind because they weren't working as closely with the op.
They thought I was Superman when they saw me operate and log at the
same time.
__________
Stan, K4SBZ
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 4:53 PM Lee Hiers<lee.hiers@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 2:29 PM Jim Brown<k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
wrote:
He may have been thinking about Field Day, where clubs not all that into
contesting would have three guys at every station -- the guy who did
the
sending, another to help him copy, and a third to log the QSO. I
encountered this in the '50s when I was starting out.
They're still out there...I'll go to a club FD every once in a while, and
they'll say something like "we'll try to find you a logger" and I say "no
thanks, I can do it myself"...always seems to befuddle therm!
73 de Lee, AA4GA
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