[CQ-Contest] My email to my close CAC representatives

[Alan Higbie]

This is the way top guns sounded in 1971.

https://hamgallery.com/dx1970/w4bvv.mp3

Certainly not as quick & crisp as contesting signals are today.

73, Alan - K0AV

On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 8:28 AM jimk8mr--- via CQ-Contest <
cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:

>  Plus back then the exchange included the Time and Date - the date being
> your birthday.  For which I wonder how many OCT 31 birthdays turned into
> May 5?
> I remember my first CW SS, or at least the score, as WN3BGE.  16 QSOs in
> 11 Sections in five hours.  My rates went up somewhat once I graduated to
> General Class.
>
> 73  -  Jim   K8MR
>
>
>     On Wednesday, February 11, 2026 at 07:31:12 AM EST, K9MA <
> k9ma at sdellington.us> wrote:
>
>  On 2/10/2026 6:23 PM, Art Boyars wrote:
> > in a way, we've worked ourselves out of a job.
> Anyone have recordings of contests before computer logging? I know that
> in 1967 the winner of CW SS averaged about 30/hr, maybe less.
>
> 73,
> Scott K9MA
>
> --
> Scott  K9MA
>
> k9ma at sdellington.us
>
>
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