Butch,

I didn't have much trouble learning it.  I just liked using a microphone 
better.  I don't know if I would have felt different if I were able to send 
and receive at 50 or 60 words per minute.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 10:55
Subject: Re: More about C W


>I agree.  I've never enjoyed the code.  Some love it, it just has always
> been way to hard for me to pick up on.  I was sure Glad when I passed
> my test.  I enjoy the technical side of the hobby.  To each his own.
> 73
> Butch Bussen
> wa0vjr
> open Node 3148
> Las Vegas
>
>
> On
> Fri, 11 Jun 2010, Steve Dresser wrote:
>
>> Ed,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> ----- 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
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>