Basically the FCC and its licensing requirements are
broken. The contests are just fine.
73s John NE0P
--- Cqtestk4xs@aol.com wrote:
> the fone and cw ss are 2 entirely different contest
> as far as im concerned!
> ......and 10m fone activity is the main reason de
> w7gg
>
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> IMHO SS is not broken, The main difference has
> nothing to do with 10 meters,
> at least not in the east. I made over 2100 qsos
> this past weekend and only
> 15 of them were on 10 meters.
>
> As I stated before, it has everything to do with the
> new operators we are
> getting. As has been posted previously, the large
> majority of the checks in
> the SS CW were from the 80s and earlier. In going
> over the checks I received
> in the SS SSB this weekend, that's not the case.
> Lots of 00s, 02s and so
> forth. If I get a chance to break them down, I
> will.
>
> Nevertheless, I still subscribe to the idea, that
> since the FCC no longer
> requires a high code speed to get on the HF bands,
> CW is dying...and so are
> the DOMESTIC CW contests. I am not knocking CW, but
> the handwriting is on
> the wall. We can put our heads in the sand and
> pretend we don't see it, but
> it's there.
>
> SS is not broken. The manner in which the FCC
> grants licenses has diminished
> the pool of good CW ops for the SS CW. It has not
> affected the SS SSB.
>
> Bill K4XS
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