[Elecraft] QRP and Contesting

[Andrew Moore]

> Diving into SS CW when you are not prepared and then calling a good op
who is capable of over 1000 contacts elitist seems a bit childish

Hang on, that's not what happened. The inexperienced op who answered the
call of a high speed contest op didn't call anyone elitist. Those were two
different people.

In the interest of protecting and preserving the valuable spectrum we've
been allocated, it might be good for infighting to take a back seat, or at
least a less visible one (ie let's get along with each other in public
despite differences). There are plenty non-ham entities eager to profit
from our currently non profit bandwidth (ex: see 1988 FCC reallocation
order for 220-222 MHz), Cascading effects might include the snuffing out of
radio related, innovative small businesses, which ultimately isn't good for
our hobby, sport, interest, learning, advancement and service.

73 de NV1B
..




On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 7:39 PM Richard Hill <nu6t.rich at gmail.com> wrote:

> The point of the SST and MST contests is to provide newer cw ops with a
> contest training environment where the exchange is simple and new ops can
> practice sending and receiving and other basic operations like dupe
> checking in a friendly and mostly unhurried environment.  Diving into SS CW
> when you are not prepared and then calling a good op who is capable of over
> 1000 contacts elitist seems a bit childish, like a driver with a new
> license calling Indy 500 drivers elitist.
>
> Rich
> NU6T
>
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 3:53 PM Edward Tanton <n4xy at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> I am also in the 'by hand' group. I greatly enjoy the "process": a paper
>> dupe sheet, picking the next QSO, and entering the log information. For
>> various reasons I MAY partially fill out a QSL card. No, you don't win
>> categories, but my head & heart love itSent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
>> -------- Original message --------From: Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com>
>> Date: 11/8/22  6:41 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: Andrew Moore <
>> andrew.nv1b at gmail.com> Cc: Elecraft Reflector <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] QRP and Contesting Andrew Moore <
>> andrew.nv1b at gmail.com> wrote:> For many of us...the joy of contesting>
>> is keying by hand and taking notes on paper...I'm in this group. Casual
>> contest operation, usually QRP, mostly CW, and almost always logging by
>> hand.I greatly appreciate all of the very serious ops out there who
>> approach this with a high level of skill and give everyone -- regardless of
>> ability -- that next QSO.WayneN6KR(Disclaimer: I'm not in the "still
>> learning CW" camp
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