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1. [CQ-Contest] ARRL SS SSB (score: 1): Author: Joe <nss@mwt.net>; Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 20:58:04 -0500; Kind of looking at the log from last november antuicipating the results any day now. But something I noticed was interesting on the CK Numbers we worked. And how many,, Check this out. Sweepstakes Ch; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2018-04/msg00054.html (13,151 bytes)
2. Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL SS SSB (score: 1): Author: Jack Haverty <jack@3kitty.org>; Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 11:26:23 -0700; I suspect it's people who got their license while a teenager, and are now retired, but still around, and have the time to contest. Interesting data would be how that "bubble" of activity changes from; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2018-04/msg00059.html (16,411 bytes)
3. Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL SS SSB (score: 1): Author: Jim Stahl via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>; Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 09:32:50 -0400; Sputnik and the solar cycle peak of our lifetimes that made talking around the world a rather easy thing to do. The CB craze of the 70s kept things going for a while after that. 73 - Jim K8MR _______; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2018-04/msg00061.html (8,853 bytes)
4. Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL SS SSB (score: 1): Author: Glenn Rattmann <k6na@cts.com>; Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 12:17:02 -0700; Sputnik 1957, plus IGY (the first International Geophysical Year) 1958-59. The first STEM wave (analog) followed. Moon race. About 1980, there was a second STEM wave, but digital. Kids started playin; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2018-04/msg00062.html (11,144 bytes)
5. Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL SS SSB (score: 1): Author: "Mark Steven Williams" <k9gx@thepoint.net>; Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 20:15:00 -0400; Joe: Everything is in the single digits till 1958/59 What happened then? The Baby Boomers were teenagers and found interests and hobbies, including amateur radio. and then in 1980 it fell apart again; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2018-04/msg00063.html (16,017 bytes)
6. Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL SS SSB (score: 1): Author: ktfrog007--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>; Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 10:46:15 -0400; Hi Joe, 1957 Sputnik Solar Cycle 19, the mother of them all, peaking in March 1958 late 1970s: the introduction of the personal computer Apple II 1977 Atari 1979 Commodore 1977 etc 73, Ken, AB1J Kind; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2018-04/msg00064.html (11,343 bytes)
7. Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL SS SSB (score: 1): Author: Frank NF8M <nf8m@arrl.net>; Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 11:47:53 -0700 (PDT); Everything is in the single digits till 1958/59 What happened then? WOW! and then in 1980 it fell apart again. what changed on those dates? 1957-58 was the International Geophysical Year, which brou; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2018-04/msg00065.html (9,486 bytes)
8. Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL SS SSB (score: 1): Author: Bob Poortinga <ng9m@arrl.net>; Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 14:29:50 +0000; This distribution appears to me to be evidence of The Baby Boomer generation in the US. (Persons born between 1945 and 1965.) 73 de Bob NG9M _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2018-04/msg00066.html (12,192 bytes)
9. Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL SS SSB (score: 1): Author: "Mike Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>; Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 12:09:01 -0300; You're backwards. Likely nothing special happened then. 2017-1958 + 14 (or 15 or 16, the age of young hams at the time) would put the age of the folks you worked at roughly mid 70's. Folks are dying; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2018-04/msg00067.html (8,468 bytes)
10. Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL SS SSB (score: 1): Author: "rjairam@gmail.com" <rjairam@gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 13:50:59 +0000; My general feeling is that ham radio peaked in several periods and the interest was retained among those who were there during the peaks. Others just fell off. So your survey of checks reflects that.; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2018-04/msg00068.html (12,508 bytes)
11. Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL SS SSB (score: 1): Author: "Alan M. Eshleman" <doctore@well.com>; Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 13:14:17 -0700 (PDT); Correct! Those were the kids who, if teenagers today, would be computer nerds. Check 56 for me... 73, Alan/K6SRZ This distribution appears to me to be evidence of The Baby Boomer generation in the US; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2018-04/msg00070.html (12,793 bytes)
12. Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL SS SSB (score: 1): Author: John Geiger <af5cc2@gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 16:35:10 -0500; Remember what we learned from previous Sweepstakes and check discussions on this list. The check is just some 2 digit number you make up, so you can't read much into your data. Some numbers are easie; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2018-04/msg00071.html (14,320 bytes)
13. Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL SS SSB (score: 1): Author: "Bob Shohet, KQ2M" <kq2m@kq2m.com>; Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 17:00:11 -0400; The late 50s early 60s was the first major wave of leaving the cities for the suburbs in the newly constructed development homes by Levitt and other builder they were the WW2 generation after they ha; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2018-04/msg00073.html (14,587 bytes)
14. Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL SS SSB (score: 1): Author: Barry <w2up@comcast.net>; Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 15:15:37 -0600; Almost looks like a Medicare card is an entry requirement. Barry W2UP (not eligible yet) 73, Alan/K6SRZ This distribution appears to me to be evidence of The Baby Boomer generation in the US. (Person; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2018-04/msg00075.html (12,708 bytes)
15. Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL SS SSB (score: 1): Author: "Ed Sawyer" <sawyered@earthlink.net>; Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 10:37:48 -0400; Very interesting demographic dialog. And valid at the generic level. Yet, SS is the unique bird in being affected. Other contests have shown doubling - tripling of log submissions. They are also like; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2018-04/msg00085.html (8,496 bytes)
16. Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL SS SSB (score: 1): Author: Gary Sutcliffe <w9xt@unifiedmicro.com>; Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 16:02:19 +0000; The increase in the late 1950's coincides with Sputnik, IGY, the start of the space age, and the cold war. People got interested in technology partly because it was patriotic to do so and partly beca; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2018-04/msg00087.html (19,483 bytes)
17. Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL SS SSB (score: 1): Author: <n2zn@rochester.rr.com>; Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 15:08:27 -0400; Having been fortunate enough to be a part of competitive multiops in SS for the last 10 years, and having access to the logs, the received checks consistently show a glut of checks in the 55-75 range; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2018-04/msg00096.html (23,141 bytes)
18. Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL SS SSB (score: 1): Author: Chuck Dietz <w5prchuck@gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:07:21 -0500; The sunspot cycle may have a little to do with it. I noticed some of the higher check/years roughly correspond to sunspot cycle peaks. Chuck W5PR _______________________________________________ CQ-Co; /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2018-04/msg00105.html (19,833 bytes)

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