Except I didn’t argue “some can’t therefore we shouldn’t”.
I argued “most won’t, but we should find a way for those who want to.”
73, kelly, ve4xt
> On Nov 11, 2016, at 10:26 AM, Kevan Nason <knason00@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for feedback Kelly and I don't assume anyone is inferior to me.
>
> Agree with your point about infrastructure and Heard Island and understood
> there are situations the ability to get a real time score is not possible.
> There are always exceptions. But most can. If you start from that point and
> figure out a workable solution as to how to make it work for most then you
> can figure out how to handle those exceptions.
>
> Starting at "some can't therefore we shouldn't" has stopped a lot of projects
> over the years.
>
> Kevan
> N4XL
>
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Kelly Taylor <ve4xt@mymts.net
> <mailto:ve4xt@mymts.net>> wrote:
> > If you go to a place that doesn’t have the
> > net you aren’t likely to be using a competitive station and won’t have a
> > shot at beating your chest in triumph anyway.
>
> I call BS on this one. Sorry.
>
> Heard Island is going to rock a contest, simply by virtue of its rarity.
>
> A cottage station in VE4 can rock SS, simply by virtue of Manitoba’s relative
> rarity.
>
> Just because you don’t have Internet doesn’t mean you don’t have access to
> concrete or can only put up wires.
>
> At least one winner of ARRL DX last year was a Field-Day style station, set
> up on a cliff facing the U.S.
>
> Some of these stories are some of the greatest stories we have. That
> so-and-so won with more than a thousand feet of tower, 200 total elements and
> more Alpha than Alpha Centauri isn’t a great story. A victory is almost
> expected at that point.
>
> You can’t assume everyone operates with the same infrastructure you do, and
> you can’t assume those who don’t are automatically inferior.
>
> Real-time scoring would be a great contest-within-a-contest. It would help
> attract new contesters and push the boundaries of contest reporting. But
> making it mandatory would drive away a large part of your existing customers.
> More so, I’d argue, than it would attract.
>
> 73, kelly, ve4xt,
>
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