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Re: [TenTec] real CW ops

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] real CW ops
From: Duane A Calvin <ac5aa@juno.com>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 23:26:44 -0500
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TO get an idea of this, try sending:   "Bens best bent wire"  or  "USS
Tennessee"  without putting a lilt on your sending.  Now, imagine that on
steroids.  That's the Lake Erie Swing.  It can be nigh unto uncopyable at
it's "best."

        73,  Duane


On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 17:27:41 -0400 "Reed O. Krenn" <reed_ww3a@alltel.net>
writes:
> On Thursday April 7 2005 17:20, Ynkedragon@aol.com wrote:
> 
> >
> > I was told by an "old timer" that a Lake Erie swing was CW sent 
> with a
> > (noticeably) shorter than 3:1 dash-dot ratio, i.e., 2:1.  
> Supposedly some
> > of the ship-board sparks operators aboard Great Lakes iron & grain 
> boats
> > sent CW this way.  I've heard CW sent this way, and find it 
> rather
> > difficult to copy .
> >
> Let's hope the "Swing" went down with the Edmund Fitzgerald!
> -- 
> Reed O. Krenn / WW3A
> reed_ww3a@alltel.net
> "You will be reincarnated as a toad;
> -and you will be much happier."
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