This weekend, I am gonna participate in the #SKCC #WES ..

Since this is #StraightKey territory, I am gonna end call contacts with the old school "shave and a haircut" instead of just sending dit-dit.

Just cuz that was my favorite part of #MorseCode back when all I had was the #novice band on #40m.

#HamRadio #AmateurRadio

One of many #MorseCode #CW contacts during the @skccgroup
#SKCC #WES #WeekendSprintathon 3/15/2026 0130 UTC #BencherStraightkey #Bencher #Straightkey

https://youtu.be/tPZLaSGmgWE

Development idea. Spoof #straightkey #cw #keyer

Many years back I wrote some phototypesetter code to spoof hand typed text for folk who wanted to pretend they had a secretary: variable weight, not all on the base line, some letter pairs closer than others.

I'm not still writing code but consider a keyer with an imposed, customised #fist, with just enough randomisation to look human.

Just for a giggle

"Every operator develops a distinctive style of sending so that he can be recognized readily by those who work with him constantly. [...] Mr. S., a dispatcher of much experience, works daily with forty or fifty men and states that, after hearing four or five words, he can readily recognize the sender, or be sure that he is not one of his men."

Bryan and Harter (1897) [https://grants.hhp.uh.edu/clayne/HistoryofMC/Bryan&Harter-1897.pdf]

#CW #CWfist #straightkey

Spending Saturday afternoon with the Straight Key Century Club #SKCC WES 11 08 2025 @skccgroup #AmateurRadio #HamRadio #Morsecode #CW #Straightkey #TelegraphKey

https://youtu.be/rulRWwScOL0?si=wFUL8hm6FyD3cumX via @YouTube

KD7DTS rocking the straight key on W7O/CS-195: https://youtube.com/shorts/7I9KLu6S0LI

#MorseCode #StraightKey #HamRadio #SummitsOnTheAir #SOTA