Greetings Ed!

 EV>> As I have been reading this Thread the thought has come to my mind
 EV>> of how many participate in CW Contests?

 RW>> I've done that with a DX group. They were Extras, I was a
 RW>> Novice, then a Technician and  finally a General.

 EV> I was asked to keep the Log beside a High Speed CW OT OP the first
 EV> Field Day I participated in after I got back home from the Navy.

c1960?

 EV> The Op would ask me, "did You get that?" and I say
"sure".

 EV> That went on for a few contacts and when I told him when I was in
 EV> Navy Radioman School my CW RCVing Speed got up to 26WPM, after I told
 EV> him that he never ask me anything again except if the station he was
 EV> calling was a Dupe contact. They gave me a Flip-Top Telephone Index
 EV> for a Dupe Log, to write the Call Signs down of the Stations we
 EV> already worked on that frequency, and usually I'd let him know if the
 EV> Station had already been worked before he'd have the chance to ask
 EV> me.

CW conversations are fun. But I never got that excited about them.

 EV> Back when I listened to the W1AW Code Practice audio a few months
 EV> ago, I found out how rusty I was at copying High Speed CW.

Heh! Sometimes I have a hard time copying the IDer on a repeater and have
to listen to it a couple of times to get it. Now that's rusty!

 EV>> I'd think that would be a fair way to find out if CW is a lost art
 EV>> or not, don't You think?

 RW>> It might help to clean up some of the man-made noisy interfence
 RW>> on the phone bands.

 EV> I'd say have everyone go back to using AM then.    hi

Unnnn, that would only add to the noise...

    Have a day!

         R\%/itt - K5RXT

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