Well, Arni, this is a case where mileages *do* vary. I, for one, find a reasonable amount of "swing" improves copy and reduces fatigue. But, then, I've been listening to it from both commercial and amateur operators for over half a century now...
An awful to of good traffic was handled long before "keyers" came on the scene. I recognize that a lot of today's Hams, experienced only with machine-perfect code with a pure sine wave sidetone, have trouble copying anything else. I was much the same back about the time I took my code test. One doesn't progress beyond that point without the same effort it took to learn CW in the first place: practice. With keyers and keyboards so common today, that's not as easy to find as we did. That's why I strive to hold the best spacing I can on my bug when working someone using a keyer, but I have no illusions that I'll ever match the machine perfect timing of a keyer. The "music" argument makes sense to me but I'm no musician, just a commercial and amateur CW operator with a *lot* of CW traffic behind me sent by ops on bugs that were a joy to copy, and some who weren't. (Some things never change ;-) Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:02:38 +0200, "Arie Kleingeld PA3A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >CW-swing is related to music. No it isn't. It's related a person with a poor fist that cannot control the length of the dashes to match the dots they are sending. It has nothing to do with music; It has to do with reliable communication. I believe most bug users who tout the Mississippi Swing should QLF. > Timing is so important. That is correct. A Dash has three times the length of three dots, no more, no less. Even Beethoven knew that, as shown in his fifth symphony. > >Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra are still famous for their timing. A >1-2-3-4 march has a steady beat. But have you ever heard the Saint >Louis Blues March? Lots of examples... None of your examples were CW operators and probably didn't even know what it was... [snip] Tom, N5GE - SWOT 3537 - Grid EM12jq _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
