50 years ago, you couldn't wear your shack on your belt.
50 years ago, it required some effort to get a ham license.
50 years ago was before the instant gratification age.
Barry W2UP
On 3/23/2013 08:10, James Cain wrote:
Contest after contest, my CW log fills with short call signs owned by people from the
"one radio and paper log" generation. People like me.
We are the generation who "populate" the logs of the SDR/RBN/Packet/SO2R Type A operators
who are obsessed by "winning." I am always glad to work them, but they are few. Where are
the hundreds of new hams/contesters in their teens, 20s, 30s, 40s?
50 years ago, W4KFC and W9IOP worked hundreds of newbies like me. Today, I can
count the number of newbies I work on two hands.
Jim Cain, K1TN
(40,000 contest QSOs, 40,000 QSOs sent to LotW, since 2004)
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