Subj : Re: New Adventures in Old Tech
To   : Ed Vance
From : n2qfd
Date : Thu Jul 18 2024 12:16 pm

 EV> FLDigi ???
 EV> I don't subscribe to any Amateur Radio publications or catalogs, so I am
 EV> unaware of what a FLDigi is.

  FLDigi is a bit of software that came about as the sound card's got better in 
PC's and you could use them to make/decode digital signals for HF. It has a CW 
decoder in it but like most machines it really can't get a great copy on human 
made CW. This is where we'll always beat the machine! The human hand and brain 
trumps the machine sent/received CW.  


 EV> How about this for a Tagline:
 EV> ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA is how I say the Alphabet.
 EV> I can send it in CW too.
 EV> 
 EV> Another story: when in Navy Radiomans School I was listening to mixed
 EV> words when I heard   TENNESSEE
 EV> On the air I had heard TENN but not the whole word sent.
 EV> The sound of it jarred me.
 EV> It has a nice rhythm, try sounding it out 

  Now this is something to try doing, and great advice. I often would send 
alphabet as taught then numbers and prosigns, but reversing it would be good 
good practice. 

  I think sending Japan is a strange word in CW too, at least for my brain. And 
I play that car game too, thinking of the letters I'm seeing. It's been years 
and years since I've had a 73 via horn on the highway as well. I think to do it 
myself when I see a callsign plate but then I also think, well... don't want to 
scare him + probably doesn't know code...

  Milliwatt sprint last night with NAQCC was difficult. I was tired, and this 
is a poor starting point. Working for the utility NYSEG we've been cleaning up 
from storm damage thru NY this week. Then conditions were not super. Lots of 
lightning crashes, fade and interference. Signal reports were 229 339 some 
459's but not much better and I was using 4 watts unlike some of them really 
squeezing the electrons and sending 72 at the end of the QSO! 
  We go to the radio with the conditions we have eh? There were a few dozen 
working the sprint and we made it happen so can't beat that. 

  I'll work on good lid, haven't had anyone send QLF in a while... probably 
deserve it after that sprint! 

  Best 73 to you too. 

 Mal

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