[PaQSO] CW vs. Digital

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In a message dated 12/9/2005 7:16:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
stank4uk at rev.net writes:
> You've got to be kidding !
> Why not:
>      CW and Phone only on Saturday
>      CW and Digital only on Sunday
> There are CW operators, including mobile CW stations who enjoy working DX
> on the higher bands.  We don't need digital screwing up those bands also.
> 73, Stan - K4UK
> 

Then, in a message dated 12/10/2005 9:34:58 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
stank4uk at rev.net writes:
> My comment was meant in fun, but I guess folks have forgotten that ham 
> radio contests are for fun.


   I'm still looking for the part in the first message that I should have 
recognized as "fun"ny.  So sorry.  In my original post, I ended with:
"Just food for generating healthy discussion, boys; not a proposal..."

   And I didn't insult the CW ops who said the world might end if RTTY was 
allowed, but I guess we know what you think of the unskilled PSK bottom-feeders:

stank4uk at rev.net writes:
So, putting the shoe on the other foot why not eliminate the Phone 
operations on Sunday and force the Phone operators to learn how to type 
messages in RTTY.
There is very little skill involved in running RTTY, except the need to 
know how to use a keyboard.



     I was introducing alternatives for a cure without an established problem 
yet.  In fact, if your glasses didn't fog up after the first paragraph, you'd 
have read that I even went on to suggest that digital might be allowed only 
on bands that CW ops find useless in the contest in order to further protect 
them.
    For the RECORD, I am a HUGE proponent of CW preservation.
    Pete, NL7XM