[CQ-Contest] CQ-Contest Digest, Vol 199, Issue 20

[Stanley Zawrotny]

I concur with Jim’s suggestion about analog and digital categories. It does two things - it puts each in their own category so that they aren’t competing against each other and it shuts up the grumbling old men who are against anything other than CW. (BTW, I am 76 - old but not grumbling.)

Stan, K4SBZ

"Real radio bounces off the sky."

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> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 19:40:54 +0000 (UTC)
> From: jimk8mr at aol.com
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> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] possible changes for CQ VHF Contest
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> Hi Dennis,
> I'd suggest a somewhat middle ground: digital modes (FT*, etc.) and analog modes (SSB, CW, FM voice, etc.). 
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> And then allow single "mode" or mixed "mode" (analog - digital) entries, with repeat QSOs on the other mode.
> It did not happen for me this weekend, but it has not been unusual in the past to have cross-mode QSOs - CW to SSB. I would not want to make those impossible, as most were me calling a distant station on CW who was unable to copy me on SSB. 
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> As for CW vs. SSB, I had just about the same number of QSOs on each of those modes. Maybe because it was easier to punch F1 with the left hand and punch "page down" with the right hand as I was reading the online news on a separate computer.
> And thanks for that CW QSO!
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> 73? -? Jim?? K8MR