I can send at 10 wpm and receive at about five with a character speed of 15 wpm. I now have learned and used all of the letters except Q,X,Y and Z. You are going to find the chill, the angry, the elitist, the lazy, it's just life. To loosely quote the Simpsons "like people some of them are just jerks". Your are going to see the same issues with any hobby, group of people or the likes. Don't let those type of things discourage you. You can make some awesome friends on HF even if it is only for a few minutes.
You can't unfortunately, change other people only yourself. You'll learn where to stay away from and again just adopt the mentality of " spin the vfo". There are gun laws, drug laws and laws in general that are broken by people all day long. I was under the impression that such things were frowned upon by the FCC. They bounce between God talk, politics and foul language (that you wouldn't want your mother to hear) like balls on a pool table. With CW even after I get the General license I won't have to talk to the surly octogenarians on HF.
I would still get the decoder software just to verify that I received information correctly. Being able to use CW seems to have so many advantages. I started studying with today and am already making progress like never before. If that was what they valued most then they got into Ham radio for the wrong reason. I guess they though of it as a some kind of exclusive club.
Some of the old timers hated that change, and likely will never get over it. There were endless debates, some still going on, about the merits of dropping or not dropping the CW requirements. The crappy attitude was at its height around the time the FCC dropped the CW requirement for all license classes. Switch to another repeater or use the VFO to find somebody else to talk to. The question that concerns me however is this: Will the old boys who had to learn the code as a license requirement harbor any resentment toward an upstart that only uses software and a computer? What is the proportion of all CW mode users rely on a computer to handle the translating?ĭon't worry about it. In order to take advantage of Technician privileges I'd still like to communicate in this mode whenever I get into HF. Now that my older brain isn't what it once was I wouldn't dream of attempting it. My attempt to learn Sam Morse's code at an earlier period in life was a total failure.
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