Just a few thoughts from the middle of the country --
The more populated areas of the country already have a huge advantage
when it comes to making QSOs compared to those of us who have fewer than
a dozen stations within 200 miles. While I support the idea of getting
folks back on cw and phone, making analog QSOs count twice (or 4 times!)
as much as a digital QSO really puts those of us in the hinterlands at a
disadvantage.
Likewise, getting points for separate QSOs using CW, SSB and digital
also gives a big advantage to the population centers. Combining CW with
SSB vs digital, as K8MR suggested (but for a different reason), would
lessen that discrepancy somewhat as well as take care of the mixed mode
QSO question. Maybe with just 2 categories and a distance factor, it
would be more palatable for those of us away from the east coast or
other populated areas. (Or maybe too much of a change for others).
I don't like the idea of a station only being able to make a CW QSO in a
CW sub-band. There are a lot of places in the country where it was tough
to find anyone straying from 144.200 even in "the good old days." I
think it would take a lot of arm twisting to get stations to move to
144.050 in my area.
The bottom line is that I'm in favor of recovering the lost cw and phone
activity, but let's not overlook the unintended consequences.
73, Arliss W7XU
Currently marooned near Tierra del Fuego (and you thought you were
in the sticks), but normally in EN13
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