Topband: Lack of NA Activity on CW

[John Harden, D.M.D.]

On 4/24/2019 4:48 PM, JAYB1943 at OPTONLINE.NET wrote:
> Lets face it guys ??? hams like me (age 76, licensed at age 14) learned and
> used CW as an (almost) mandatory part of the hobby. Along came the NO-CW
> licenses and there was a whole lot fewer new people on CW....Us old timers
> are dying off and the CW mandate goes with us. Regardless of the rise of the
> digital modes (oh, do remember, RTTY is a digital mode), the total number of
> CW ops was destined to fall ! The new-comers (no cw requirement of course),
> raised on bits and bites, naturally gravitated to the new Digital modes,
> particularly during these sunspot doldrums. If it was 1980, they would all
> be on 10m ssb working the world 24/7 !
> Be patient, in 4-5 years condx will improve dramatically (we hope !) and
> there will be a big shift back to SSB....but...don???t expect a similar
> resurgence of CW...sadly, it???s a dying art...so us OT???s should enjoy it
> while we can and learn to live with the new realities of HR.
>     73 jay NY2NY
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I am 75 and licensed since 1959 at age 15.. I am big on CW and love it. 
I have little interest in the digital modes even though I am a 3-time GA 
Tech graduate..

CW rules... especially on 160.....

73,

John, W4NU

K4JAG (1959 to 1998)