I am celebrating my 50th year in ham radio, have held an Extra
ticket since 1959. I first learned to use QSK in 1956 when I
worked lots of traffic nets. And I've been a contester since the
late 50's. I probably made 50K contest Q's before I finished
college 41 years ago! I bought my first power amp in 2004.
QSK is important for at least two reasons. Competitiveness is
certainly one of them. But the other reason I consider CW ops who
don't use it lids is because they are more likely to interfere
with other hams. That has ALWAYS been an important part of being a
good operator, and when we're running higher power, that becomes
increasingly important.
Jim K9YC
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From: Gudguyham@aol.com
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:53:28 EST
In a message dated 2/22/2006 1:52:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,
wa7fab@cdsnet.net writes:
Gee....guess you can include me in your list of lids, there Jim! Over 50
thousand cw contest q's and never a qsk contact among them. And you
probably ought to include another 70 thousand from our group of pretty well
thought of DX ops that operated as XZ0A in 2001 from Myanmar of which I was
one. Van, K7VS
Kudos Van
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