[CQ-Contest] CQWW Survey

[David Gilbert]

The actual truth of the matter is that there are VERY few Generation 
X'ers in ham radio at all ... certainly not in HF radiosport.  Of course 
they don't know how to operate in the manner you and I feel represents 
proficiency because in all reality they probably couldn't care less.  
And why should they?  The have far more technologically interesting, 
dependable, and socially pervasive ways to interact with friends and 
strangers than ham radio.  If they are there on your frequency at all 
they are there to make a few fun contacts, maybe work a bit of DX, and 
that's pretty much it.  Except for maybe a handful of exceptions they 
aren't serious contesters and never will be.

So who are all those folks who zero beat you from the cluster spot or 
bothered to set up CW Skimmer on their computer so they could find you 
without effort?  They are the same people you worked in contests 20 
years ago ... at least the ones that are still alive.

Blaming poor operating on the mechanisms that make it possible is 
erroneous in the first place, but blaming it on youth is simply skewed 
logic.

73,
Dave   AB7E



On 3/18/2013 9:59 PM, JIM NEIGER wrote:
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> So very sadly, today's Generation X has no clue on how to operate, and 
> it shows.  Oh boy, skimmer.  Let's see how good ZD8LID really is:  we 
> will all be S-5 and zero beat on his signal.  Good luck on getting 
> ZD8LID active in your next contest.  But hey, look at all the new 
> "operators" we've brought into contesting.  Oh boy..............
>
>
> Vy 73,
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> Jim Neiger  N6TJ  ZD8LID