-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Scovell [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 11:47 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: CW is Dead. Really!

Great score, Lloyd, for only 26 hours.  Bands weren't perfect but I noticed 
a lot of the QSB had gone since last season and I copied Japan signals from 
18.0 to 28.101 often over S9 at 3 PM in the afternoon.  15 sounded even 
better and 40 rocked.  I can't wait to hear how the bands are for the ARRL 
CW test because generally signals and conditions are much better.

Phil.
K0NX




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2011 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: CW is Dead. Really!


> Long live CW!
>
> In 26.5 hours of operating, I made 1,224 QSOs with at least 88 countries,
> for a new personal record score of just over 1.5 million points.  I 
> finally
> figured out how to make Window-Eyes 7.5.2 automatically speak text in the
> color used by the Dupe! Warning in N1MM.  So I could type a callsign in as

> I
> was scanning the band, and get warned immediately if this would be a
> duplicate QSO with that station on that band.  Sometime I may try to get
> N1MM working with spotting networks or the Reverse Beacon Network.  Also,
> I'm using an FH2 keypad and the FT950's internal memories for CW
> transmissions, rather than having the computer do the sending.  I'm tired,
> but it was a blast, with 153 QSOs on 40, and more than 300 each on 20, 15
> and 10.
>
> My brother Paul, W6PR, doesn't copy CW all that well, so I advised him to
> track my progress by looking for W3IUU on www.reversebeacon.net .  This
> system showed my frequency and how strong my signal was at various CW
> skimmer locations whenever I stayed on a frequency and called CQ.  So Paul
> found me and worked me on 20 CW on Saturday.  That also was fun.
>
> I'm glad you had a good 20-meter net.  I should be back in action for the
> next twoSundays.
> 73,
> Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Wheaton, Maryland
> Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
> Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators 
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Ed Malmgren
>> Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 5:27 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Fw: CW is Dead. Really!
>>
>> Yes Phil, some of those guys were really spitting it out.  I had to 
>> listen
>> four of five times before getting their call.  One dit of qrm or qrn and
>> you
>> miss half of the call.  Great fun for sure.  73
>> Ed   K7UC
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 3:26 PM
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: CW is Dead.  Really!
>>
>> > Tell me again how dead the CW mode is and then tune 10 through 160 =
>> > meters during CQ Worldwide CW.  Some stations art transmitting at 45 
>> > and
>> =
>> > 50 words per minute and it is wall to wall stations.  I put my Icom 
>> > 7000
>> =
>> > on the lowest setting for filtering last night, and slow tuned the 40 =
>> > meter band.  I put the tuning knob in the click mode and started at =
>> > 7.00001 and 02 and 03 and right up the band.  With my G5RV at 35 feet, 
>> > I
>> =
>> > copied European and Russian and Africa and South America and stuff =
>> > coming out of the Pacific on almost every second or third click or Hz 
>> > as
>> =
>> > their signals fell into my narrowband CW filter.  DX was stacked right 
>> > =
>> > on up the whole CW band and some with big signals, too.
>> >
>> > Phil.
>> > K0NX
>