I agree totally, This is where I used to go into the old novice bands
and run the contest if i was out jut for fun. Hey I get on the air, and
make a bunch of contacts, maybe just ATT for the whole weekend or just
GW, either way it was a lot of fun,
I know the old novice bands are no more, but has some sort of
gentelemens agreement appeared that equals them?
Joe WBNSBD
On 5/31/2013 2:57 PM, KU7Y wrote:
Show some gratitude and slow down, guys.
I spend a good bit of time on a couple of QRP email lists. There are
many folks there that are both new to ham radio and to contesting.
One of the things that seems to always come up is how contesting is
too hard to break into due to all the fast CW.
Now I understand that speeds do need to be up there a bit to be able
to make a good score but.... when we think about things to do to get
more people interested in contesting we need to also think about those
new folks trying to "get up to speed" and just giving up because they
can't copy most stations.... even one letter/number at a time.
I'm not sure just what the answer is but it's seems like a shame to
pass up this pool of "recruits". Maybe if more people would move up
the band and cut their speed down to 15ish or so wpm during some of
the low rate times, would this help "welcome" the new folks??
After all, these new folks are a good portion of tomorrow's scores if
we can get/keep them interested while they get their CW skills up.
OK, back in my hole,
Ron, KU7Y
SOWP 5545M
Arizona Outlaws Contest Club
Silver Springs, NV
ku7y@qsl.net
http://www.hatpinsandmore.com
KX3 #0062
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