On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 02:42:30 -0400, "Arnie Macy"
wrote:


At this year's Field Day, our two little CW ops out
performed (in contacts per hour) our SSB friends by ten to one on the same
band during the exact same period of time. Now I realize that you were not
talking about CW vs SSB, but the analogy is still interesting, huh? Why do
you think that happened, Carl? (hint: I'm sure it had nothing to do with
poor band conditions)

There are other possible explanations for this other than mode
selection. That could also happen because the CW guys were "running"
QSOs while the phone guys were hunting and pouncing. It could also be
because the CW ops were simply more experienced contesters and, for
all we know, could have also outdone the SSB guys by ten to one on SSB
as well.

OTOH, you could be right.... :-)

73 DE John, KC2HMZ