Jim,
Great example.
Phil.
K0NX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Shaffer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: Does CW Really Work?
> You bet CW works! I was hanling emergency traffic for that Jamaikan
> hurricane back in 1988 or 1989. I was taking SSB traffic from a station
> in
> Jamaika, when he said his power was failing, and asked if we could switch
> to
> CW. We did, and I got the traffic and passed it on. There's a story
> where
> the ability of CW really shown.
> --
> Jim, ke5al
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Scovell
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 3:21 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Does CW Really Work?
>
> It was the summer of 1968 and I was about 15 years old. I'd had my
> general
> a little over a year, as I recall, and my Uncle Fred drove up from Wichita
> Kansas to pick me and my ham gear up. I was going down to his house in
> the
> country for a couple of weeks. I had 200 feet of 14 gage wire, some
> insulators, and a hundred feet of RG58 coax that I brought along with my
> Drake TR4. Another uncle, after arriving in Wichita, told me he had a
> couple of 30 foot telephone poles not being used on his acreage and he
> would
> pull them down with his tractor so I could use them at Uncle Fred's for
> antenna supports. Not only did he pull them down, but he trucked them
> over
> and he and my Uncle put them up for me. I showed them how the antennas
> went
> together and shortly I had an 80 and 40 meter flat top dipole up about 25
> feet. My best ham buddy at the time was Lynn, WA0ODH, and he lived about
> 250 miles north of where I was in Wichita. He was probably my first
> contact
> from Kansas. We talked till noon on 3892, the Nebraska net frequency, but
> then the band closed down and we were repeating every thing we said on
> phone
> so we stayed on that frequency, and went to CW. We talked for another
> hour
> until the band died all together. Yet, CW still works when sideband can't
> even get through.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>
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