Agreed, Ed.

Whatever happened to the idea of hams helping hams!

Is a final contest score really more important than helping others who are
trying to do the best they can on a particular mode with what they have?

It's just the educator in me speaking here, I guess.

Tom Behler: KB8TYJ


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Ed Malmgren
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 3:06 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: CW contest this weekend

Ron, I am almost a solid c w person and you ought to send that lid that sent
you that e-mail to go to hell and that he is a piss poor ham.  73



ED K7UC
-----Original Message----- 
From: Dr. Ronald E. Milliman
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 12:49 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: CW contest this weekend

Regarding the CW activity this weekend, I am stuck with this old, but goody,
World War II straight key, and no way can I send 30 or 35 wpm with it, and
nobody will give me the time of day stumbling along at 15 wpm!! You guys
won't believe me about this, but honestly, I even received an email message
from a station who told me to stay off the bands if I couldn't run with the
big boys at least 30 wpm. My paddle went to Heaven with Justice Antonin
Scalia, and I am trying to do my best with this straight key. It is the key
I started with way back in my Novice days in 1957, and it is still a super
fantastic key, but it doesn't go like my paddle did! <lol> Plus, these old
hands aren't as fast and coordinated as they were when I was a teenager!

Ron, K8HSY