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

[Barry]

50 years ago, you couldn't wear your shack on your belt.
50 years ago, it required some effort to get a ham license.
50 years ago was before the instant gratification age.

Barry W2UP


On 3/23/2013 08:10, James Cain wrote:
> 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?
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> 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)
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