[ILQSO] 2014 Digital Station

[Jim Funk]

It depends on "whose CW".  :)   I am a great defender of that mode, but I can see there being a significant number of operators who would make a few PSK or RTTY contacts that would never in the world tackle a pileup on W9MSE/M on 40 meters!!

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From: ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:ilqso-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of chuck
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2014 12:59 PM
To: Illinois QSO Party
Subject: Re: [ILQSO] 2014 Digital Station

Not nearly as fast as cw, however. 

Also, there aren't as many layers of stations to work....

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> On Apr 14, 2014, at 11:09 PM, Eric Lorenz K9LGE <k9lge at emlorenz.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes, but isn't digital counted the same as CW points-wise (2/qso)? And 
> I would beg to differ...if you've got presets for the std exchange... 
> you can blow thorough a RTTY or even a PSK31 contact pretty fast...
> 
> I would live to do that...have wanted to try digital, but held back 
> because everyone told me "oh, no one does that"...
>> On Apr 14, 2014 7:33 PM, "chuck" <ki9a at aol.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Only problem with digital is its not conducive to high rate contacts, 
>> making it unappealing to anyone trying to compete for high score. In 
>> other words, the big guys most likely wont bother.
>> 
>> I would try to talk him into CW, using a cw decoder.
>> 
>> 73, KI9A
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>>> On Apr 14, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Millerd18 <millerd18 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> We have an operator interested in doing strictly digital for the 
>>> next
>> ILQP fixed St. Clair County.
>>> 
>>> Hope to drum up some interest and a few contacts. More as October
>> approaches...
>>> 
>>> 73 KM9o
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