[CQ-Contest] REALLY long contests

[BobK8IA at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/7/2003 6:09:34 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
w7why at charter.net writes:


> Yeah, and if you look at the winning scores--they were usually 300-400
> Q's or so in that 2 weeks.  Some guys now do that in an hour :-)  I've
> got some old (30's-40's) CQ's and QST's and you would be amazed at the
> low scores that won.  It hasn't been all that long since the first
> SOAB op broke 1,000,000 points.  73
> 

Hi Tom;

Yup, activity was way lower than now and the number of hams, US and 
Worldwide, only a fraction. In addition, many of the Eu and Asian stations 
had power limitiations that made anything more than a casual effort very 
prohibitive. Guys in the 50's and 60's will remember gobs of 40 watt UA's and 
20 watt JA's because that was their license limit. I like it better now too, 
more to do. Take care

73,
Bob K8IA
Mesa,Arizona USA
near the Superstition Mtns