[CQ-Contest] Scary

[AB2E Darrell]

Pete,
Good point about the new ops showing up.
It's been 3 or 4 years since I operated SS CW more than just a couple hours.
I noticed quite a few CKs from 00-18. Also quite a number of ops coming back to my CQ at between 17-21 WPM.
While I like to typically operate at 30+wpm in contests, I try to slow down for the slower ops that came back.
I think it will help them hang in there. Sometimes I just slowed down some, like to 24 or 25 so as to still challenge them and hopefully help improve their speed.

There seems to be some attrition in the diehard 24hour high-speed operators, but perhaps that;s my imagination.
I'm thinking back to the 90s and 80s when on Sunday afternoon a lot of operators had 1000+ QSO counts, only worked a few of those on Sun this year, and one of those was Multi.

73 Darrell AB2E

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Scary

The one I got from the N1MM site had over 10,000.  I was surprised by
how many people weren't in it.  My theory, at least, is that there's a
little new blood every year, and a good thing.  Too many checks in the 50s.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 11/4/2019 1:09 PM, Radio KØHB wrote:
> I loaded a “call history” file into N1MM+ for this weekends SS CW.
>
> Out of over 500 contacts, just seven were NOT in that file.  Five of them had checks from the last century.
>
> 73, de Hans, KØHB
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