Tom,

Yes, lots of CW contesting left over this winter and fall seasons.

Phil.
K0NX




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: CW is Dead. Really!


>    Phil:
>
> I'm really envious now!
>
> I am traveling back to Michigan from visiting my son and his family in
> Missouri, and am missing the big contest!
>
> May be able to do a little of the contest if I get back early enough
> tomorrow, but probably not that much.
>
> So, go snag those DX stations, and I'll enjoy your and others' success
> vicariously from here.
>
> Of course, there are other contests to look forward to such as the 160 
> meter
> CW contest next week-end, and the ARRL 10-meter contest the second 
> week-end
> in December, so all is certainly not lost here.
>
> 73 and gud dx from Tom  Behler: KB8TYJ
>
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Phil Scovell
> Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 5:26 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
>