[CQ-Contest] Stimulating Participation was: Limited Antenna Height Category

[Kenneth E. Harker]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 04:24:17PM -0500, Pete Smith wrote:
> 
> If it is true that only a small proportion of the total on-air participants 
> send in logs, then we have no information on what's happening to the 
> numbers of casual participants.  Here I enter the realm of the subjective, 
> because it feels to me, in CW contests in particular, as if the total 
> number of inhabitants of the bands during contests I've entered has 
> declined.  I guess that's the exact opposite of Ken's perception.

FWIW, I am almost exclusively a phone contester, so that will affect my
perception vs. a CW-only contester.

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Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
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