[CQ-Contest] NAQP CW - Jan 8-9

[Jeffrey Clarke]

Dave,

Just listen to SS CW on Sunday. You run out of people to work unless you are
in a rare section. Most of the growth in CW is in EU and Russia. It's dead
in the US. I just turned 50 and I'm still considered young compared to many
of my contesting peers. There are a few exceptions like K0DXC , but there is
not much interest in CW contesting with the younger hams.

 I think RTTY has become so popular because of the no code licenses. No
disrespect to the top RTTY contesters who have good SO2R skills and a good
knowledge of propagation, but for the average person all you need to do is
hook up your computer to copy RTTY and you're set. No special skills are
needed like on CW or SSB to copy weak signals out of the noise.

Jeff KU8E

-----Original Message-----
From: David Gilbert [mailto:xdavid at cis-broadband.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 2:50 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com; ku8e at bellsouth.net
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] NAQP CW - Jan 8-9



Where on earth did you get that?   Please provide a reference that backs 
that statement up with some figures.  All you have to do is look at the 
number of submitted logs and the number of unique callsigns worked for 
any major CW contest to know that isn't true.

I just love it when people make up crap to support their own personal 
bias ...

Dave   AB7E

p.s.  I have nothing at all against RTTY or any other digital mode.  
Everything I've seen indicates RTTY contests are growing at the fastest 
rate of all major modes.



On 12/15/2010 7:44 PM, Jeffrey Clarke wrote:
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