Sarah,

You could always treat learning the code as an opportunity to improve your 
spelling.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sarah Alawami" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 16:12
Subject: Re: More about C W


>I don't know the code but have always wanted to learn it in case i ever =
> needed it. Now granted my spelling is gosh awful so there would go my =
> grade if I did decide to plunge in to this head first.
>
> S
> On Jun 11, 2010, at 7:55 AM, Butch Bussen wrote:
>
>> I agree.  I've never enjoyed the code.  Some love it, it just has =
> always=20
>> been way to hard for me to pick up on.  I was sure Glad when I passed=20=
>
>> my test.  I enjoy the technical side of the hobby.  To each his own.
>> 73
>> Butch Bussen
>> wa0vjr
>> open Node 3148
>> Las Vegas
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>> Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Steve Dresser wrote:
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>>> Ed,
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>>> Maybe that works for some people, but my last CW QSO happened some =
> time in
>>> the early 70s.  I'm not putting down the mode for those who enjoy it, =
> and I
>>> definitely respect the skill and challenge it presents; I'm just =
> saying it's
>>> not my thing.  Maybe part of that comes from having used it 8 hours a =
> day
>>> for the better part of a year as the output for my computer terminal. =
> That
>>> definitely built up my speed and proficiency, but once I got a =
> braille
>>> terminal, I just never looked back.
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>>> Steve
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>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Ed Malmgren" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 22:06
>>> Subject: More about C W
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>>>> Gerry and Steve, when I got my ticket way back just before dirt was
>>>> invented
>>>> to get the ticket of coarse I had to pass the code.  I said to =
> myself when
>>>> I
>>>> get that general ticket I was throwing my key in the garbage.  I got =
> on
>>>> phone for about six months and then got so bored with that I dug the =
> key
>>>> out
>>>> of file 13 and went back to c w and for the most part I have stayed =
> and if
>>>> I
>>>> had to give up either mode it would be phone in a heartbeat. The =
> more
>>>> proficient you get the more you enjoy it like most things I think.  =
> 73 Ed
>>>> K7UC
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