[CQ-Contest] The Paper log one radio, the SO2R and the SDR generatio

[James Cain]

Contest after contest, my CW log fills with short call signs owned by people from the "one radio and paper log" generation. People like me. 

We are the generation who "populate" the logs of the SDR/RBN/Packet/SO2R Type A operators who are obsessed by "winning." I am always glad to work them, but they are few. Where are the hundreds of new hams/contesters in their teens, 20s, 30s, 40s? 

50 years ago, W4KFC and W9IOP worked hundreds of newbies like me. Today, I can count the number of newbies I work on two hands. 

Jim Cain, K1TN
(40,000 contest QSOs, 40,000 QSOs sent to LotW, since 2004)