[Elecraft] CW - SS - Off Topic

[Vic Rosenthal]

N2EY at aol.com wrote:

> The use of paper logs and lack of automated sending was a major limitation in
> how many QSOs I could make per hour this year, and how much effort it took to
> make the ones I did.

The big problem, I remember, was the dupe sheet.  I recall operating at a club 
station years ago in 'multioperator' mode...we had two operators, one to make 
contacts and one to dupe and log!  The Sweepstakes is a relatively easy contest 
to dupe, because you can only work a station once.  Contests like the CQ WW in 
which you can work the same station on each of 6 bands are much harder.  And 
taking into account the insane call letter assignments that are the rule today, 
it's almost impossible to a decent job without a computer.

-- 
73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco