[CQ-Contest] FCC on CW

[Jim Smith]

Here's a third option.  Invite non-contesters to do a few multi-ops 
(SSB) with you.  Do the same with CW, using one of the many CW to text 
software apps so they can make contacts without knowing the code.  If 
you give them a little training and let them go to it, some of them will 
start wanting to get on from their own stations.  Initially, their 
stations aren't going to be that effective for either contesting or 
DXing so they'll have a built-in incentive to use CW, provided that you 
have properly demonstrated the fact that CW gets through pileups that 
would be hopeless on SSB.

Once you've got 'em sucked in, though, you'd better be ready with a 
means of helping them learn the code.  Maybe your local club runs code 
classes.  If not, maybe you could, either through a club or on your own.

Keep on doing this and you'll raise a new crop of contesters, at least 
some of whom will become CW ops.

It's up to us to make CW attractive.  I believe that this is the way to 
do it.

73 de Jim Smith   VE7FO

N7MAL wrote:

>There are only 2 options: Ignore it by burying our heads in the sand and losing CW contests or make a strong stand against this NPRM. If we fail we can at least hold our heads high because we gave it our best effort to save CW contesting.
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