The VA considers me practically deaf --- up to 90db loss (do the math) in
each ear. Phone contesting is extremely difficult (you should see my UBN
reports for phone weekends), but Morse is far easier because you can "tune"
the CW tones to hit the sweet spot in your hearing curve. Consider it a
biologic filtering system.
We don't need no steenking decoders.
73, de Hans, K0HB/W7
Just a boy and his radio.
-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Lint
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 6:39 AM
To: 'Bob Naumann'
Cc: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Revised 2011 NAQP Rules
Bob,
"So how many of them are there - really?"
Nearly 10,000,000 persons are hard of hearing and close to 1,000,000 are
functionally deaf. More than half of all persons with hearing loss or
deafness are 65 years or older. That means 1/30 are hard of hearing (or
worse) and 1/330 are deaf.
If the approximate number of hams in the US is 600K, it's possible that 20K
of them are hard of hearing and 2K of them are deaf.
"who are these guys?"
When I was VP of the Stanford Amateur Radio Club in the 60's, an elmer of
mine was Bib Wightbrecht, W6MRM. He worked for SRI and was deaf as a stone;
his speech was tough to understand too. We'd talk on the phone using CW -
he had a scope that would let him read CW. We worked together to get the
club station, W6YX, on RTTY. Bob went on to use that technology on the
telephone system and is credited with inventing TTY as used by deaf people.
Let's give 'em a break.
-Rex-
Rex Lint, Consultant
26 Brek Drive
Merrimack, NH 03054
PH: 603-860-7651
-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bob Naumann
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 8:23 PM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Revised 2011 NAQP Rules
K1TTT said: "If it says by ear, they won't use waterfalls or lights or
vibrators.... they just won't participate, and I think we do want everyone
to participate."
Of course everyone wants everyone to participate.
That said - who are these guys who need to use these non-standard decoding
methods, and how many of them are there - really? Is there really anyone
who wants to operate CW NAQP who fits this category, or is this an imaginary
person?
I'd hate to see us all getting "wrapped around the axle" (I always like that
one in meetings) for no real reason.
73,
Bob W5OV
(no longer a corporate meeting attender)
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