[CQ-Contest] CW or SSB FCC says neither.

[Zack Widup]

I dunno - it's still a hobby to me.  I do it for fun.  I've been doing CW
for 35 years because I'm good at it and I think it's fun.

I work with a guy who does Highland games.  On some weekends they dress up
in kilts and throw rocks and sticks around.  It's a hobby. They do it for
fun.  Sure, a mortar can fire a rock farther than he can throw it, but
that isn't as much fun to him.

I'll keep doing CW (and sometimes SSB) and the new digital modes as long
as they continue to be fun to me.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, David L. Thompson wrote:

> The new FCC Chairman told a group of hams that its time for amateurs to move
> to the new modes
> and leave what he considers are obsolete modes.   He said (and ARRL agrees)
> that a mode such as PSK31 is superior to CW in weak signal environments.
> Amateurs are working each other with QRP where signals are below the noise
> threshold.  Listen to the speaker and there is nothing!
> 
> The FCC Chairman also stated that CW is no longer in use in DOD applications
> and is rapidly disappearing in Commercial Marine communications.
> 
> So are we getting in disfavor with the FCC by sticking to CW or SSB?
> 
> 73 Dave K4JRB