[CQ-Contest] "Back in the day" -- Single- or Multi-op?
Joe
nss at mwt.net
Thu Oct 12 19:27:07 EDT 2023
I remember in the days where high tech for CW was a pair of paddles and
a Hallicrafters TO-Keyer.
I was able to teach myself to write left handed while the paddles were
still right handed. Never got the CW to be right left handed.
But i would be sending with the right while the left was filling in the
log and that giant dupe sheet.
Letter after the number.....
Joe WB9SBD
On 10/12/2023 4:28 PM, Zack Widup wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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