A lot of interesting thoughts about CW. I feel the best would to be able
to work each station both modes but give no extra points for CW. This
will fill in the idle time especially for those of us with on 3-4 bands
and maybe Multi-op. If you want to have a separate category for SSB, CW,
and Mixed fine but I don't believe that is necessary.
The idea of separate contest is not so good as the last thing you would
want to do is spread out what activity there is. We do allot of HF
contesting here and any more contests will surely run into conflicts.
Dick - KB1H/NZ1U and an Operator on KB1DFB
Jamie Dupree wrote:
> The ideas and responses about CW & VHF contests have
> been interesting to sort thru.
>
> While I still wonder if giving more points per CW QSO
> would be the best thing to do, maybe the first step should
> be setting up a CW only category for the ARRL VHF
> contests.
>
> The other battle though is simply to convince more people
> to try out CW, instead of just yelling for contacts on SSB.
> We all know how much easier it is to work DX via CW -
> that's true on all the bands.
>
> I guess we just have to get on the reflectors, get on the bands,
> get on our friends and press them to dust off their keys.
> Heck, with all of the new computer logging software out there,
> it's more easy than ever to use a keyboard to send CW
> and even to use a computer to decode it.
>
> Jamie NS3T
>
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