[CQ-Contest] ARRL SS SSB

[Mike Smith VE9AA]

You're backwards.  Likely nothing special happened then.

2017-1958 + 14 (or 15 or 16, the age of young hams at the time) would put
the age of the folks you worked at roughly mid 70's.

 

Folks are dying off or are not physically able to contest anymore as their
health has deteriorated or they

are in a retirement home (no antennas).

The single digits before 1958 you note are the luckier/heathier survivors
Joe.

 

Nothing shocking in that list.

 

Mike VE9AA

 

Everything is in the single digits till 1958/59 What happened then? WOW!

and then in 1980 it fell apart again.

 

what changed on those dates?

 

Joe WB9SBD

 

Mike, Coreen & Corey

Keswick Ridge, NB