Good day:
I actually doesn't WANT to be connected to the internet when playing on the
radio as a single operator. Assisted and multi-operator activities already
require an internet connection to be competitive.
Forcing internet connections for all participants looks to me like another
effort to eliminate single operator categories.
73,
Mark, KD4D
> On March 30, 2017 at 10:42 PM Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
>
>
> I'm with you, Scott.
>
> > Martin N4UU said: "I also think that next big step would be real time log
> > checking. We are all hooked to the internet why not"?
>
> Sorry, but we are NOT all hooked up to the internet from some locations
> where we contest, and even from home, some of us have internet that is
> slow and/or erratic. W6JTI wins contests QRP from an isolated
> mountaintop in Northern California where he has no internet (and no cell
> service). I have no cell service at home. Hundreds of my neighbors have
> no cell service at home. My internet (Comcast) experiences repeated
> random dropouts at all times. During a recent storm, Comcast, telco, and
> PG&E were all down for three days.
>
> Some contesters have been having a good time with real time scoreboards,
> and I think they should be encouraged. But to make it a requirement is
> unreasonable.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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