Hi!
People that say that either haven't been elmered correctly or they've
forgotten the best elmering they got. The big boys ain't how fast you go.
Scores are determined by successful contacts.
When I first checked into the BWCWN, I had the keyboard set at 20. Once I
was certain I'd been heard, I moved my speed down to 15 because that was
closer to what the NCS was using.
I don't have any problem with 30 wpm if that's what they want to throw at
me. If there's no QSB, I'll have no trouble getting calls at 40. I'll prove
that when I want to, and not just because some jerk thinks it's the way to
get points.
73,
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of John Miller
Sent: Sunday, 21 February 2016 12:56 p.m.
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: CW contest this weekend
I would have had it been me.
-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Byrne
Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 4:01 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: CW contest this weekend
I sure as hell would have.
Pat, K9JAUAt 02:05 PM 2/20/2016, you wrote:
>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
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