[VHFcontesting] The digital modes and the Sept contest....

[Bob K0NR - email list]

Agreed.
I do wonder if this is a temporary phenomenon of people trying a new 
thing or is it permanent?
73 Bob K0NR

On 12-Sep-17 11:34 AM, jon jones wrote:
> Mike has a good point. Many ops now seem to focus solely on digital and the result is there now no one around to work CW/SSB, particularly on 6 meters.  This is true in and outside the VHF contest. Saturday afternoon of the contest there were numerous ops in the Midwest using FT8 on 6 for local contacts on 6 that would have been easy on CW/SSB. Their tones were audible on 50.313.
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>   On 2 meters still quite a bit of SSB/CW in this area for tropo, along with MSK144 for meteor scatter and JT65b for EME.
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>   - Jon N0JK
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> I think for me what "stinks" about the digital modes for me are a
> large number of operators are running over to the digital modes and no
> longer interested in working CW or phone, leaving us poor schmucks who
> aren't "smitten" with the digital bug left out.
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> --
> Mike Urich KA5CVH
> http://ka5cvh.com
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