Let's not go there with FT-8 as part of the SS. My computer working your
computer...boring!
FT-8 only SS is OK with me...I'll sort my sock drawer.
Bill K4XS/KH7XS
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Haverty <k3fiv@arrl.net>
To: cq-contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Thu, Mar 15, 2018 11:21 pm
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] NCJ Article RE: Sweepstakes Change Suggestions
On 03/15/2018 09:48 AM, Bill via CQ-Contest wrote:
>
> No code licenses are an death knell for SS CW.
Perhaps it's time to consider adding other digital modes to the contest?
RTTY has been around for decades, PSK for a while, and newest methods
such as FT8 are popular. SS used to be CW and AM; then SSB appeared.
So change is part of how to keep SS alive. If it were still SS/AM,
SS/Voice probably wouldn't exist now.
Such a move would probably bring more newcomers in to the game. It
might also give the CW experts a new challenge to learn how to use new
technologies and how to compete using them as well as CW. And everybody
might have more fun?
/Jack de K3FIV
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