On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:28:40 +0100, Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maar...@gmail.com> wrote:
Here's a screen shot of the 20m band at one time during the CW contest. It indicates to me that there is no place to hide if you're a CW operator and want to have a rag chew on 20m. http://n5ge.com/Images/Public/20m%20CW%20Contest.bmp I don't actively participate in contests, but I do watch the cluster for spots of countries I haven't worked. When I'm not doing that I retreat to the WARC bands where contests are not allowed. The saddest thing about contests is that they have reduced the number of hams who actually rag chew and enjoy it. However we here in the USA enjoy the freedom to practice our hobby as we wish, and so it should be. Those of you who weren't hams when you had to do the Novice thing haven't experienced a fully utilized Novice portion of a band. If you didn't have a CW filter it was hard to make a contact that lasted very long. 73, Tom, N5GE n...@n5ge.com K3 #806 with SUB RX, K3 #1055, PR6, XV144, XV432, KRC2, W1, 2 W2's and other small kits 1 K144XV on order Novice: WN5QGE Advanced: WB5QGE Extra: N5GE http://www.n5ge.com http://www.swotrc.net >And yet people still complain about contests... >IMHO, if it weren't for contesting the bands would be real quiet. > >By the way, it is not my goal to make this into a "contesting yes or no" >tread. > >I'm doing my best to learn code so hopefully I can join the fun next year >;-) > >73, Maarten >PD2R > [snip] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
