Yes Phil, some of those guys were really spitting it out.  I had to listen 
four of five times before getting their call.  One dit of qrm or qrn and you 
miss half of the call.  Great fun for sure.  73
Ed   K7UC

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From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 3:26 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CW is Dead.  Really!

> Tell me again how dead the CW mode is and then tune 10 through 160 =
> meters during CQ Worldwide CW.  Some stations art transmitting at 45 and =
> 50 words per minute and it is wall to wall stations.  I put my Icom 7000 =
> on the lowest setting for filtering last night, and slow tuned the 40 =
> meter band.  I put the tuning knob in the click mode and started at =
> 7.00001 and 02 and 03 and right up the band.  With my G5RV at 35 feet, I =
> copied European and Russian and Africa and South America and stuff =
> coming out of the Pacific on almost every second or third click or Hz as =
> their signals fell into my narrowband CW filter.  DX was stacked right =
> on up the whole CW band and some with big signals, too.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX