dacalvin@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
> I hope this thread doesn't last long. This is too good a reflector to
> trash it like this.
>
Nah... it won't ..... some folks are just passionate about their
feelings and beliefs... Like it or not.. CW is a dying art.. I hear
fewer and fewer people that are truly proficient at it.. Straight Key
Night has less and less interest.. and modes like PSK31, FSK31,
Hellschreiber are developed, or rekindled perhaps with improved features
and the new modes gradually take over the old... if they prove to be
generally poor, (like HF Packet) they die a gradual, natural death..
like it or not, its a natural progression...
Take AM for example.. man, there was all kind of guff on the bands about
the "Donald Ducks" squawking SSB, when it came out... now look.. AM is
all but gone cept for the few that still favor it and enjoy it.. or, the
issue of how NOS/JNOS/TNOS, etc. were going to be the demise of the
VHF/UHF packet networks... Man, that had all us BBS sysops all up in the
air.. but regardless, once established, and the hams got a taste of it..
It was here to stay (until the capability for free internet access
became a reality, then IT began to recede into oblivion..
When other modes work and generally work better, or are easier to use..
its just going to be such that folks tend to go that way...
Its a dead horse issue... your or my particular slant on it, won't make
any difference as to its progression or digression.. so, lets get back
to Ten-Tec discussions.... nothing can be solved on this CW issue here,
or on any other reflector for that matter.
73/Mike K5AWI
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M. A. Kelly
K5AWI@ARRL.NET
makelly@interconnect.net
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