Re: [CQ-Contest] CW Sweepstakes Then and Now (Long)

["David Thompson" <thompson@mindspring.com>]

Three things to consider about the SS in 1958:

1.   You had to pick the best 40 hours out of a total of 73.

2.    CW and phone ran at the same time so you had to pick your mode.

3.    There was a QSO multipier of 1.5 on phone and 1.25 on CW for running 
150 watts input or less.  Virtually everybody ran low power (or said they 
did).

Plus phone meant AM for 99% of the phone gang.  Don, K2AAA (Mr. Eldico) was 
the main advocate of SSB.

Dave K4JRB 


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