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

[rjairam at gmail.com]

Computer working computer also applies to RTTY, because you can't
decode the didle.

I've used FT8 in contests and it's basically just another mode.

Ria
N2RJ

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 8:32 PM, Bill via CQ-Contest
<cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:
> 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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