"bb" wrote in message
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Dan/W4NTI wrote:
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Dee Flint wrote:

I and the OM also worked some of the VHF contest and noticed a very
strange
thing. Only 10% of the contacts that we made were Technician
operators.
On
the other hand, 80% of them were Extra class operators. So where are
all
the Techs who are "trapped" in VHF and above because they "can't" pass
the
code (as some would have us believe)?

It's Techs being Techs again, they're too busy "advancing the state of
the art" to be bothered with learning the code and contesting.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE

w3rv


BWAHHHHHHHHH....we both know the "Tech" license stopped being technical
in
nature way back in the early 60s.

Dan, I've never seen you advocating "Truth in Licensing." Have you
said as much to the FCC in any of your NPRM comments?

And MOST VHF/UHF contesting is done in SSB mode.

Dan/W4NTI

If most of the VHF/UHF Contestors are Extra's as Dee says, why isn't CW
used most often?


No I have not commented on anything with the FCC other than BPL and sending
in reports about
K1MAN.

I figured out a long time ago the FCC was basically a lap dog of the ARRL
when it comes to
dumbing down of the license structure. And my pitiful input wasn't going to
have any affect
at all.

So "bb".....does that blow your mind, or what?

Dan/W4NTI