[CQ-Contest] "Back in the day" -- Single- or Multi-op?

[Zack Widup]

I remember back in the late 60's when you had to keep dupe sheets for Field
Day. Everything was on paper. We had huge sheets of paper that had each
callsign area (0 through 9) divided into columns with A through Z.
Oftentimes a non-licensed person would be keeping the dupe sheets. We would
just show them how it worked and tell them what to enter.

Over the years I've worked mostly CW on Field Day. A lot of people were
amazed that I could work people and log them on a computer at the same
time. They didn't know that I'm used to it.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 4:16 PM Stan Zawrotny <k4sbz.stan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Our club used loggers during Field Day as a way to get newbies
> partially involved with the QSO. Newbies would have trouble making the
> contact and working the computer at the same time.  Half an hour to an hour
> of logging gave newbies a chance to get some experience before taking the
> mic. They would work with the op to determine the call and exchange. Worked
> well with S&P, but with an experienced op running, sometimes the logger
> would get behind because they weren't working as closely with the op.
>
> They thought I was Superman when they saw me operate and log at the
> same time.
> __________
> Stan, K4SBZ
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> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 4:53 PM Lee Hiers <lee.hiers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 2:29 PM Jim Brown <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > He may have been thinking about Field Day, where clubs not all that into
> > > contesting would have three guys at every station -- the guy who did
> the
> > > sending, another to help him copy, and a third to log the QSO. I
> > > encountered this in the '50s when I was starting out.
> > >
> >
> > They're still out there...I'll go to a club FD every once in a while, and
> > they'll say something like "we'll try to find you a logger" and I say "no
> > thanks, I can do it myself"...always seems to befuddle therm!
> >
> > 73 de Lee, AA4GA
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