[CQ-Contest] NCJ Article RE: Sweepstakes Change Suggestions

[cqtestk4xs at aol.com]

Let's not go there with FT-8 as part of the SS.  My computer working your computer...boring!


FT-8 only SS is OK with me...I'll sort my sock drawer.


Bill K4XS/KH7XS



-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Haverty <k3fiv at arrl.net>
To: cq-contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thu, Mar 15, 2018 11:21 pm
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] NCJ Article RE: Sweepstakes Change Suggestions

On 03/15/2018 09:48 AM, Bill via CQ-Contest wrote:
> 
> No code licenses are an death knell for SS CW.

Perhaps it's time to consider adding other digital modes to the contest?
RTTY has been around for decades, PSK for a while, and newest methods
such as FT8 are popular.  SS used to be CW and AM; then SSB appeared.
So change is part of how to keep SS alive.  If it were still SS/AM,
SS/Voice probably wouldn't exist now.

Such a move would probably bring more newcomers in to the game.  It
might also give the CW experts a new challenge to learn how to use new
technologies and how to compete using them as well as CW.  And everybody
might have more fun?

/Jack de K3FIV
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