[UK-CONTEST] Comments from a G3 (again!) 5nn and all that!

[Colin]

Hi Roger,

I also remember using my KW2000 with the 2E21 valve in place of the 5763
(I think), and using batteries instead of generators!

I did however use an old J36 (or was it a J38) bug key instead of a
straight key.

Anyway what about Low Powered Fied Day on Sunday July 20th?   Nearest
thing to those days.

http://www.vhfcc.org/hfcc/rules/2008/rqrp.shtml

73

Colin, G3PSM

Roger Cooke wrote:
> Hi.
>
>   I am another Luddite, just like Tom! We could ask Dr. Who to take us back to those "good old dayd" when we used 10 watts ONLY for NFD, used a paddle or even a straight key ( heard of those?) and loggers. ( Not Canadian lumberjacks, but people actually keeping a check log! ). As for the 599 or 5nn as it is now, this will never change! I have problems trying to convince non-contesters of the sense of what I do when entering a contest. It really is very difficult to justify! The satisfaction obviously comes with the experience of operating a contest!
>
>   Anyway, back to normality again with the automatic stations....   Now I have no problem with all of this. What really p....s me off is the way that amateur radio in general is going. There seems to be a trickling down into normal operation of this "5nn, tu, 73" type of operation, from what can only be described as mundane stations - even as mundane as a G3!!
>
>   If I call CQ, I do not expect a "two button" QSO from somebody who is quite capable of conversing in English. ( Or French / German for that matter ).    On RTTY I have now put a CQ macro in that says NO RUBBER STAMP CONTACTS PLEASE.  As I lose friends that I have known for decades and have chatted to for sometimes and hour or three, I don't see them being replaced with amateurs who are willing to chat.
>
>   We do at least make friends with fellow contesters along the way, so that is another reason for entering them, but they are rarely heard elsewhere!
> Perhaps we should have a SKN type of contest with 10 watts max and no antenna other than a wire, no computers etc as Tom suggests!
>
>    
>
> Regards from Roger, G3LDI
> Swardeston, Norfolk.
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