[CQ-Contest] CW is over-rated

["Felipe J. Hernández"]

Mario,

Reality is, that poetry goes hand in hand with the needs of the hobby 
and latest thread on how to get the new guys involved in contesting.
Sooner or later our beloved WW contests will have to include something 
"new", Digital, gateweable with an internet port and  Ip address
that has greater depth that our beloved RTTY (Baudot Code)  that has 
been around  way before  radio was invented.

Cw will always exist, the purist will keep it alive and  hobbies are 
about that, doing something that most people dont do. On the other hand
CW Contesting with the rates and hundreds of semi-rare countries active 
will be limited in the future by audience and audience many times is 
judged by
 perception. Certainly  SSB  seems that  is getting a  push with the new 
relaxed  Amateur Requirements around the world and the new audience in 
SSB will make the perception
go against CW and make people wonder if full blown efforts are still 
worthwhile... Will see...

Lets embrace whatever comes into our future, maybe the cw contest will 
be more digital  than cw, but  then again  the CW points will be X4 and 
will  make people
create more intelligent cw copying machines or maybe some of the new 
competitive dudes will learn CW to get that EDGE and techniques that the 
machine will never have.

 Futuristic Poetry ( I have to stop eating this portobello mushrooms:)"

Felipe
NP4Z

Marijan Miletic wrote:
>> I really suffered with WPX SSB splatters in poor condx thinking of CW &
>> RTTY elegance and simplicity.
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> OC Jukka, OH6LI made a long comment of my above statement.  I am well aware
> that speech is the most natural form of human communication.
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> However, the goal of HF contests is passing as much different callsigns and
> numbers within a limited time.  We can do it fast almost as horse race
> commentators.  We need about 2,5 kHz bandwidth for that within our limited
> band phone segments.  They get overcrowded and bad interference occurs with
> our 1500 W and high gain antenna systems.  Young hams quickly learn that
> they can play the same game using PC and only 250 Hz of bandwidth within
> narrower RTTY segments.  Smart ones discover Morse code doing the same job
> with even less power.  The only effort they must invest is learning that
> code with good tools available, namely ears and brain. However, there are
> more interesting games these days with less learning required.  Only the
> ionosphere remains for the curious minds!  ITU gives us great opportunity to
> explore it.  We also make technical progress on the way including internet
> forums on the subject!
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> 73 de Mario, S56A, N1YU in poetic mood
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