[RDXA] CW?

[Rick Mintz]

Point - Counterpoint
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Mackanos 
  To: 'RDXA Member Mail List' 
  Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 8:49 AM
  Subject: Re: [RDXA] CW?


  The difference between CW and RTTY.

   

  CW Ops do not need a computer and lots of expensive equipment and peripherals (Cost = hundreds to thousands of dollars) to TUNE in a station, CW Ops use the computer that is built in. (The one between their ears). Cost = $0.00  The cost of raisng a child to CW maturity, about $300.000. Far less than RTTY.

   

  SSB Ops can do the same thing. I have no issue with SSB ops. There are so many of them, they can't be wrong.

   

  Getting on and copying CW is as easy as turning on the rig and tuning thru the band, we decode each station immediately without hesitation or tuning in the station on a scope. If we hear a station, we copy it, we don't need to tune it in to a certain TONE,  (SSB Ops need to do a little tuning so the station doesn't sound like a duck talking). If we want, we can go OLD SCHOOL and log on PAPER, right then and there. The cost of a piece of paper and a pencil.  I see you opened with the word "easy".  Easy would describe a mode with only a single tone! Additionally, "paper and pencil"? Also low tech. Cave drawings also use a similiar means to record what was seen/heard. 

   

  Ricky, you really left yourself open for a spanking on this one !!

   

  p.s. Now I am not saying that CW Ops don't have all that expensive stuff, or use computers, but to COPY CW, 99.99% of CW and 100% of SSB operators do not use a MORSE CODE DECODER, (DEMODULATOR) we use our BRAIN !!

   

  Therefore the book title is correct "RTTY FOR DUMMIES". You may be right. It was shelved next to the book "Theoretical Physics For Dummies".

   

  J  Paul K2DB 

   

   

  From: RDXA [mailto:rdxa-bounces at rdxa.com] On Behalf Of Rick Mintz
  Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 8:21 AM
  To: 'RDXA Member Mail List'
  Subject: Re: [RDXA] CW?

   

  I've been spanked! 

   

    ----- Original Message ----- 

    From: Paul Mackanos 

    To: 'RDXA Member Mail List' 

    Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 8:13 AM

    Subject: Re: [RDXA] CW?

     

    http://www.norfolkamateurradio.org/pdf/talks/Data%20for%20Dummies.pdf

     

     

    From: RDXA [mailto:rdxa-bounces at rdxa.com] On Behalf Of Rick Mintz
    Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 8:01 AM
    To: RDXA Member Mail List
    Subject: [RDXA] CW?

     

    RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY

     

    I was at the library and found a book, "RTTY For Dummies". Turned out to be a tutorial on CW.

     

    Spank me!

     

    Ranger Rick


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