Hello Kenny. How is everything going? Forget decades. How about now! I see
this all the time now at work. The millennials would rather IM or email you
than talk to you. God help you if you actually show up in their office for a
face-to-face. You quickly become the creepy old guy. I am not sure if that is
what is driving your experiences with the use of digital modes when they aren't
needed for weak signals but I wouldn't be surprised. Bottom line as I see it
is digital modes will be good for bringing in new, younger blood to the hobby
but these younger millennial hams will not be like us older folks. I have two
millennial children and they think different so don't try to pressure them into
the old ways of doing things. My 2 cents.
73
Jim, W4KXY
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> On Sep 12, 2017, at 1:20 PM, winger55552001 via VHFcontesting
> <vhfcontesting@contesting.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> I agree.
> One thing to note... the IM-like nature of digital appeals to younger
> hams.... it will be harder to get the introverts over to voice and cw as a
> few decades pass.
> Randy, N0LD
>
>
> Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Kenneth Silverman <kenny.k2kw@gmail.com>
> Date: 9/12/17 10:57 AM (GMT-06:00)
> To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] The digital modes and the Sept contest
>
>> One can work QSOs much faster on SSB or CW and, from what I can see after
>> using FT8 for several months during 6M E season, CW can also be copied by
>> ear at lower signal levels then FT8 can reliably and repeatably decode.
>
> While I haven't used FT8 yet, the key takeaway is to operate CW/SSB when
> the band (or your ears) will support it. This past summer people were
> staying on JT65 when that band was very open.
>
> Kenny K2KW
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