On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 20:48:06 -0800, "Calif Bill"
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"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:19:38 -0500, JohnH
wrote:

On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 07:32:08 -0500, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:51:03 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

JohnH wrote:
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:44:06 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:45:06 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:39:36 -0500, Tom Francis - SWSports
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And they said CW was a dead mode.

HA!!! :)
Dead only because of no-code licenses.
I'd guess it will be almost completely gone in another 20 or 30
years
as our generation goes SK. It will become a fringe niche like
AM
phone. The good news is that it will only need about 25 KHz
per
band.
NEVER!!!
Once you get hooked on the hi tech digital modes with excellent
error
detection/correction, automated retry, adaptive speed/modulation,
and
uncanny weak signal ability, it is really hard to look back.

I am truly amazed every time I see an error free EMAIL popping out
of
the PACTOR from a barely audible signal. I will concede that
being
able to build a low power CW transmitter from a bag of junk parts
is
kind of interesting also, but it's like comparing a Model T with a
Ferrari. The Model T is interesting because it runs at all, and
the
Ferrari is interesting because it runs so well.
A Ferrari is like a woman's reproduction system. It is very
complicated
and seems like it is in the shop half of the time.
You mean that's it's in the shop every 27 days?
I must not have followed the proper maintenance schedule. I just
rode
it hard and enjoyed the ride, forgetting that you need to follow a
very
rigid maintenance schedule. Or maybe it just seemed it was broken
half
the time.

Sounds like a Harley Davidson to me.

Very similar, but more fun.

A perfectly good thread about electronic communications ruined.

And it's all your fault.

Nope. Whoever started comparing Ferraris and Model Ts did it.

Well, there aren't any Canadians in the thread so I can't blame
Canada.

Also there aren't any Mexicans, Guatamalems, Costa Ricans, French,
Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese or Arabic speakers in the thread so
I can't blame any of them either.

That just leaves you and Reggie.

And I blame Reggie just because.
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Happy Holidays and Merry Whatever It Is
That ****es Liberals Off.

Reggiephone? Oops, Reggiephobe?

Regicide is more like it.

Get it - Reggie - cide?

Never mind.