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VK6BE > MORSE 08.10.06 04:21l 38 Lines 1903 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 7E0224VK6BE
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Subj: Re: The long (short!) zero
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From: VK6BE@VK6JY.#ALY.#WA.AUS.OC
To : MORSE@WW
I don't think very many CW operators would agree with mandatory use of
full breakin, Andy, and there are a few good reasons why such a regulation
should NEVER be brought in.
Just for starters, morse code is the simplest means of communication and
one of the most effective in that it will get through when precious little
else will. To use full break in under difficult DX conditions especially
on VHF would make the operation very difficult, especially when signals
are weak and fading in and out as often happens on long haul VHF and
UHF.It would not work.
Secondly the very simplicity of the CW mode means that very simple gear is
required, so any one no matter what their financial position can build
gear and get on the air. If you make it mandatory that full break in be
used this simplicity is lost immediately to the detriment of the hobby.
Thirdly, if full break in is used for morse operation then vox must be
made compulsory for all the other means of communication including packet,
and RTTY. Wouldn't work.You can't do it to one without doing it to the
other.
The "best" CW ops? WHat you mean is that the UAs work at a h*** of a
speed, but so do some Americans. This is because they have spent some
decades operating nothing but morse code. There are others who can operate
at high speed but don't these days. In my army days many of us worked at
between 25 and 30 w.p.m. and at 20 wpm for cipher - about the limit of the
speed you can print by hand. Many of our really expert operators were
morse operators on the post office telegraph. However that source of morse
operators has gone for ever.
Cheers,
Bob VK6BE.
>
> and of course it should be law that full break in is used at all times ;-)
>
> And thirdly,another observation is that the best CW op's always
> seem to have callsigns starting with UA or "eastern bloc" calls.
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