[Moon] Random or scheduled

[peter blair]

 Joe Taylor  K1JT has stated, in a submission to the IARU meeting,  his opinion that  " Indeed, until fairly recently scheduled contacts were the norm 
for nearly all EME work."  Regardless of the issue of JT and digital modes, I have to say that  for me " fairly recently " would be at least 20 years ago, probably more. 
   Currently I make about 400+ eme QSOs a year mainly on 432,1296 and 2320 MHz and I estimate that about 10 of these would be skeds. I looked back at my 1983/4 log book and there are indeed more skeds but still many more QSOs in there were truely random,  so " the norm for nearly all" is wrong as well even 23 years ago. 
 In my view the statement is just not correct..... or have I got it wrong? 
73 Peter G3LTF

 
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