Dave:

A useful figure here would be the percentage of hams who contest... Dee
seems to think all 600,000 (and yes, I don't think that figure is even
close to correct) do...

John

On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:40:39 +0000, Dave Heil wrote:

John Smith wrote:
Dee:

Nope, never have seen all the bandwidths in as much use as back during the
70's and early 80's, did you have a ticket back then? My gawd, those
oldtimers have forgotten what a real "pileup" means! Congestion worse
than imagined in my worst nightmare!

It's a nice story. It is a pity that t'ain't true. I've run pileups
spanning five to seven KHz for as long as six hours at a time, working
200-300 CW QSOs per hour. That happened as recently as 2000. DXing and
contesting aren't games about twenty and thirty years ago, they're
about what you've done lately. Contest scores have gotten bigger. The
top scorers work more stations than were worked two or three decades ago.
There are domestic scores now which top the world high scores of that
many years ago.

Dave K8MN