[CQ-Contest] SS phone requires little skill?

[Joe]

Thats funny but true!
90% of my ham lifetime was with an old Drake TR-4,  no CW filter, so was 
always listening at like 3Kc wide. when I first sat down at a field day 
station with a 500 or 250 filter set i felt like I was in a tunnel and 
can't hear anything, I was able to switch it to a wider filter and run 
great, the owner thought i was nuts how can you hear with all those 
signals in the passband.  I would say what other signals?

Joe WB9SBD
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On 2/6/2013 5:28 AM, n8cc at mei.net wrote:
> 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.
> _________________
>
> 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)
>
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