[Elecraft] A K3 Pileup Wrinkle with CW Skimmer

[brian]

Please provide some references for CW contest participation is 
declining.  My recollection from various magazines is that contest 
participation #'s are up for all modes ( no reference provided either).

73 de Brian/K3KO
On 2/6/2015 21:38 PM, Larry Libsch wrote:
>> For those who are so disabled as to require an external "crutch" to
>> copy their own call and 5NN, it is a simple matter to reverse channels
>> in the sound card (at most it requires a "reversing cable") to decode
>> audio on the sub Receiver.
>
>         Ah, the old CW snobbery! When is the notion that paddle or key 
> generated CW is superior to software and keyer generated code going to 
> disappear? You decode RTTY with software, don't you? CW is just 
> another digital mode. Software decoding has brought many new CW ops 
> into CW DXing and contesting. Software encoding is more accurate and 
> allows many ops to achieve speeds they could never otherwise achieve. 
> Perhaps you use a keyer for contesting? Many (most?) contesters do. CW 
> contest participation is declining. RTTY contest participation is 
> increasing. Software is every where improving our lives. Time to give 
> up on old ways and ideas and move into the future.
>
>
>                                                             K4KGG, Larry
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