[CQ-Contest] SS phone requires little skill?

[n8cc at mei.net]

Tom, W7WHY said:

How some of these guys can run in a DX contest with all the watery,
weak,
different dialect signals just boggles my mind.  It usally takes me
3 or 4
tries to just figure what the heck the
dx stations callsign is a lot of the time with my hearing aids and bum
hearing.
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You know you've truly arrived as a Contester when the
notches in your hearing have steeper skirts than the filters
in your radio.  :-)

73, Jeff - N8CC (factory ears for the last fifteen years)