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Re: [CQ-Contest] saving us from ourselves

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] saving us from ourselves
From: "Tom Osborne" <w7why@charter.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:49:38 -0800
List-post: <mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com>
 Zack Widup wrote:

>>Maybe we ought to have at least one old-fashioned contest >each
year.  No packet at all, no computer logs, everyone logs >on paper and
mails their logs in.

They have one like that, except it's not really a contest.  It's
Straight Key Night on New Years Eve.  All done with a straight key.
No keyers, computers, or any of that other fancy stuff.  You also hear
a lot of old, old rigs on the air then, too.  73
Tom W7WHY

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