My pleasure Gil. It was good to listen for your signal and frankly, I much prefer the receiver in the K2, to the one in the EOC 746PRO for CW. I have their equipment at the house for some work that I'm doing for them.
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You did well! CW is a superb mode for EMCOMM and you & I passed specific sentances in a maner VERY siilar to passing radio traffic: 'fills' in the form of repeates & etc. In time, we can work on how to streamline that. During this recent Hurricane Sandy, I had a relatively short message to pass to Richmond, Va. Unfortunately, though we had an excellent voice link, passing traffic in voice is a pain, inefficient of time & etc. I had to send it to the guy three times. In Morse it would have taken about 1-2 minutes for the message and maybe another 2 minutes for the fill - if he were not a professional at traffic handling. As it was, is sounded like
"... Ocran Road - I Spell OSCAR, CHARLIE, ROMEO ALPHA, ROMEO . . . ". iN mORSE MESSAGE HANDLING, IT'S ALWAYS "SPEED THROUGH ACCURACY.". Better 14 words per minute accurately, than 20 words per minute, filled with errors and fills.
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Yes - 100 Watts :-[ I have sinned and not even in those FUN ways which I much prefer. ;) However, I thought that the extra 1.5 S-units might be noticed by you. ha ha Really the difference between the 15 Watts'ish from you and 100 W from me does not amount to much difference on receive. If we took the time to find the best hour between us for that band, we'd likely have roaring strong sigs - not that it matters. Once we were reliably readable in code, it was all gravy from there, especially for your mosquitoes. :o
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de RadioRay ..._ ._
Ps. My 3 day kit had full-mil DEET and even my survival knife sheath pouch contains a mosquito head net. Works fine with a boonie hat and I remember this delightful Sweetie from Texas wearing it and ONLY it around one evening, like some sort of Tactical Victoria's Secret nightie while I was packing my gear. Aaaaah, Texas ladies are something special.
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You did well! CW is a superb mode for EMCOMM and you & I passed specific sentances in a maner VERY siilar to passing radio traffic: 'fills' in the form of repeates & etc. In time, we can work on how to streamline that. During this recent Hurricane Sandy, I had a relatively short message to pass to Richmond, Va. Unfortunately, though we had an excellent voice link, passing traffic in voice is a pain, inefficient of time & etc. I had to send it to the guy three times. In Morse it would have taken about 1-2 minutes for the message and maybe another 2 minutes for the fill - if he were not a professional at traffic handling. As it was, is sounded like
"... Ocran Road - I Spell OSCAR, CHARLIE, ROMEO ALPHA, ROMEO . . . ". iN mORSE MESSAGE HANDLING, IT'S ALWAYS "SPEED THROUGH ACCURACY.". Better 14 words per minute accurately, than 20 words per minute, filled with errors and fills.
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Yes - 100 Watts :-[ I have sinned and not even in those FUN ways which I much prefer. ;) However, I thought that the extra 1.5 S-units might be noticed by you. ha ha Really the difference between the 15 Watts'ish from you and 100 W from me does not amount to much difference on receive. If we took the time to find the best hour between us for that band, we'd likely have roaring strong sigs - not that it matters. Once we were reliably readable in code, it was all gravy from there, especially for your mosquitoes. :o
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de RadioRay ..._ ._
Ps. My 3 day kit had full-mil DEET and even my survival knife sheath pouch contains a mosquito head net. Works fine with a boonie hat and I remember this delightful Sweetie from Texas wearing it and ONLY it around one evening, like some sort of Tactical Victoria's Secret nightie while I was packing my gear. Aaaaah, Texas ladies are something special.