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"William" wrote in message om... "Dan/W4NTI" w4nti@get rid of this mindspring.com wrote in message link.net... "Steve Robeson K4CAP" wrote in message ... Subject: Morse and Contests From: Mike Coslo Date: 4/27/2004 7:34 AM Central Standard Time Message-id: Idly musing, I thought of this a few moments ago. It isn't a CW testing question, but is related by being a CW operating question. With the likely demise of Morse code testing, is there any reason to have contests give double the points for Morse code contacts? Sure...why not? It requires some REAL skill to do. In this regard, as in any other pursuit in life, greater skill should be rewarded. While of course all contest rules are inherently arbitrary, does it make sense to have one mode of contact be "more equal" than others? Not "more equal"...Just better compensation. As a Nurse with my experience, credentials and skills, I expect to be compensated accordiningly. So why not be "compensated" in a contest that required using honed skills, too...?!?! Put another way, if you think that CW contacts should be worth double points, is it fair to have say, PSK31 contacts worth the same double points such as in Field day? Our GOTA station racked up a fair number of points operating PSK31, and it was certainly no more difficult than operating Phone. And how long would it take a "new" Ham to master using a keyboard? I've seen a number of cases where a phone operator has worked hard and logged a lot of QSO's, only to be beaten by a CW op with little more than half that number. Shudda been on the paddles! Seriously, though...Most contests differentiatemodes in awards... Steve, K4YZ Simply stated....CW Contesting requires real skills. Digital requires the ability to type. Phone is way down there from the above requirements. If you want to do so....Give phone 1 point, digital 2 points, and CW 5 points per qso. That's my opinion, and I'm sticking to it. Dan/W4NTI Your opinion looks wrong to me. My opinion is that the point schedule should be inverted from what you propose. I mean, when Aaron Jones was keeping the Morse Myths list, it would appear that a CW QSO just couldn't fail. It always got through, no matter the propogation, the power level, the QRN, or the QRM. Each and every Op would QRS for the new guy and everything was just so wonderful. Meanwhile phone Ops practice dog-eat-dog, QRM each other, use bad phonetics, and propogation is always iffy. Furthermore, they marry their Technician sisters and don't even QSL. Bass turds! Give the phone ops 5 pts per completed QSO, the CW Ops get 1. And what was your score in the last major DX contest? Or lets make it easier. How many DX QSO's have you had in a major contest....???? If under 300, you are disqualified from inputing on this discussioon. Dan/W4NTI |
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