[CQ-Contest] Why do we like our favorite contesting mode?

[Julius Fazekas]

Too, I think it's a lot easy to hear and be heard on CW, particularly for those of us running LP and QRP.

Still trying to figure out the best method to get out of the noise on RTTY.
73
Julius Fazekas
N2WN

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--- On Mon, 1/4/10, K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Why do we like our favorite contesting mode?
> To: "Tom Osborne" <w7why at verizon.net>, "CQ-Contest" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Date: Monday, January 4, 2010, 12:30 AM
> 
> 
> >
> > Been contesting here for many moons, and for me, it's
> a hearing thing.  I
> > think as people get older, hearing becomes more of a
> problem.  Younger 
> > guys
> > have better hearing than us OF's.
> >
> > Tom W7WHY
> >
> 
> There's more and more of that going around.
> 
> In CW mode I can tailor and tweak the sidetone, use APF,
> and other sorts of 
> tricks to "hit the sweet spot" in these old eardrums.
> 
> But even with thousands of dollars of "aid and assistance"
> in each ear, 
> phone contests are getting to the point of punishment, not
> enjoyment.  I'm 
> not likely to be in many more. This isn't a "CW snob" thing
> at all, but a 
> simply physical fact.
> 
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
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