I agree. It's going to happen one of these days. Someone somewhere always
has a generator, and it's not hard to find someone with a rig, so there you
go. All you need is the gas to run the generator. And some kind of an
antenna. JUst send sos. I wonder then who will know sos?
Carolyn Kj4vt
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From: "COLLEEN ROTH" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 1:31 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: What CW Isn't
> Hi Lou and All,
> Naybe when people see that Cell Phones and Internet do not work in some
> Emergency Situations they will see the Value of Ham Radio.
> At least we can still communicate and help those in need if we have the
> tools we need to operate in an emergency.
> Of course it helps if we have training in Traffic Handling and practice to
> keep the NTS System working.
> Colleen Roth, N8TNV;
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lou Kolb <[log in to unmask]>
> ,to3 [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:25 am
> Subject: Re: What CW Isn't
>
>>
>>
>> CW is my preferred operating mode and, while I hate to be a pessimist,
>> I'm
>> forced to agree with what Jim says here. I'm 61 and the vast majority of
>> folks I work on CW are older than I am. Of the relatively few younger
>> folks
>> getting interested in ham radio these days, not many are attracted to CW.
>> So
>> its inevitable that CW, if not ham radio itself will die eventually.
>> Simple
>> attrition will see to that as good ops die and No one is there to take
>> their
>> place. One thing that might prolong ham radio's existance is guys and
>> gals
>> coming back to the hobby as they have more time in later life. That's
>> what I
>> did in 02 and its been a constant source of enjoyment since then. So if
>> ham
>> radio in general and CW in particular must die, let's hope and pray that
>> its
>> a long, slow decline. 73 and see you on the bands. lou
>> Lou Kolb
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jim Shaffer" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 9:52 AM
>> Subject: Re: What CW Isn't
>>
>>
>> > I'm sure many of us have noticed that if you get on CW these days and
>> > rag
>> > chew, you'll be hard put to find an operator under 60 years old. It's
>> > probably a good thing we have so many contests, otherwise the CW bands
>> > would
>> > have little activity. I actually notice less activity on HF in
>> > general,
>> > all
>> > modes. I'm sure most of the new hams are spending time using digital
>> > modes
>> > on VHF/UHF. VHF/UHF is, in addition, being essentially promoted by the
>> > home
>> > owners association restrictions. Like many on this list, I can't have
>> > a
>> > tower and beam where I live now.
>> >
>> > By the way, I'd mentioned on this list some time ago that I was getting
>> > a
>> > 29
>> > foot Zerofive vertical. Well I got it up back in mid February, and
>> > it's
>> > been working great. I can tune it on 6 through 80 meters including 60
>> > meters. I've worked a lot of dx with it. It out performs my dipole,
>> > especially when transmitting. There are situations when the dipole is
>> > a
>> > better receiving antenna than the vertical, while the vertical out
>> > performs
>> > it on transmit. This has a lot to do with signal/noise of course, the
>> > vertical being noisy by nature.
>> > -
>> > Jim, KE5AL
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Howard, W A 9 Y B W
>> > Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 5:07 AM
> @> @> ,to3 [log in to unmask]
>> > Subject: Re: What CW Isn't
>> >
>> > Currently, there are approximately three quarters of a million licensed
>> > Hams
>> > in the United States
>> >
>> > 73
>> >
>> > Howard #3
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 11:34 PM
>> > Subject: What CW Isn't
>> >
>> >
>> >>I never figure the code made somebody a better operator but when I was
>> >>a
>> >> novice in 1966, I read somewhere there were about 150,000 licensed
>> >> hams.
>> >> What are there now? I read sometime back there were 450,000 hams in
>> >> the
>> >> U
>> >> S
>> >> alone and something like 2 million in Japan or something like that.
>> >> Of
>> >> course, we didn't have satellite communications back then and CW was a
>> >> requirement for emergency communications nationally. With sats and
>> >> cell
>> >> phones, that's not so important any longer but look at those places
>> >> after
>> >> tornadoes, earthquakes, and hurricanes. Cell phones are worthless
>> >> then
>> >> but
>> >> battery and generator powered ham stations still work pretty good. I
>> >> used
>> >> to love to listen to the CW operators aboard ship talking to each
>> >> other
>> >> or
>> >> to land based operators but that's long gone, too. 75 meters, and to
>> >> some
>> >> degree 20 meters, have always had operators of bad behavior. The side
>> >> band
>> >> wars on 75 back in the early and mid sixties between SSB and A M
>> >> operators
>> >> who never wanted to change were amazing. I hear groups even on 20
>> >> side
>> >> band
>> >> today with 5 to 10 guys in the group, all friends apparently, who
>> >> won't
>> >> acknowledge a new comer or if they do, they make fun of whatever it is
>> >> he
>> >> wants; usually just to join their conversation. That's one thing you
>> >> don't
>> >> often hear on the CW bands, haha. Too much work to yell at somebody
>> >> who
>> >> can
>> >> filter you right out. One night, when I had my 40 meter 2 element
>> >> beam,
>> >> two
>> >> Mexicans SSB guys were sitting right on 7002 and they both were really
>> >> loud
>> >> and taking up all the 5 KHz of the bottom of the band. A guy, who is
>> >> probably passed away now, had a 5 element beam in California so he was
>> >> a
>> >> big
>> >> gun on 40 meters. These X E stations, at least one of them anyhow,
>> >> were
>> >> about 40 over S9 here in Colorado. I heard this W6, I forget the rest
>> >> of
>> >> his call, but his name was Sam I think, try, using CW of course, to
>> >> get
>> >> those guys to move out of the bottom of the band. Of course, they
>> >> paid
>> >> no
>> >> attention to him so I called CQ on top of them and this W6 answered me
>> >> and
>> >> we talked for about 10 minutes on CW, our beams pointed right at them,
>> >> before they finally moved. Did you know that many countries haven't
>> >> ever
>> >> required a CW test at all? The Mexico signals are loud even on 75
>> >> side
>> >> band
>> >> here in Denver and through the southwest so sometimes that amp and big
>> >> antenna comes in handy.
>> >>
>> >> Phil.
>> >> K0NX
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
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