"Dave Heil" wrote in message
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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

Well I can attest to the fact that it takes some real finesse and staying
power to snag the rare DX when you are only running 100 watts into a G5RV.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE