Hi Peter,
That's a valid concern, and the excerpt from the committee message you
quoted should 'buy' all critics some time:
"For the FT mode it is not yet clear where the fault is..."
Read the preceding messages again, and you'll see that was not the issue.
The issue there, whether 'flowered' or not, was still FT-X is not
hamradio, no skills, boring, unsophisticated users, etc.
As I said before, FT-X contesting is not likely to be my 'thing', but
give it a chance, if you are concerned about contesting.
If you are still in 'mode wars' mood, give it a rest. Other 'experts'
say the FT craze will die out in 3 years or so, let it happen on its own
then. Natural death is one thing, 'premeditated murder' is another.
73 de Vince, VA3VF
On 2020-01-12 12:56, Peter Sundberg wrote:
But there is a major problem when the contest committee tell us that
they had to waive the NIL penalty because otherwise a large number of
stations would end up with a negative score.
Furthermore the committee states the following:
"In the legacy modes, the "fault" for a NIL is most always on the side
that logged the QSO. For
the FT mode it is not yet clear where the fault is, but in any case, the
amount of NILs is
abnormally high. Going forward, FT contesting needs to better define
how QSO partners can reliably
communicate whether a QSO is complete and should be logged. The
responsibility resides both
with contest participants and FT contest software developers."
Yes Vince, a contest is a contest and the goal is the same. But when the
operator is unable to decide whether a QSO should be logged or not, to
me it that's a clear indication that automation has gone too far.
Especially when the committee says that the amount of NILs is abnormally
high.
The operator is "in the back seat" and certainly NOT up front driving.
Now that's where there's clearly room for criticizing the concept.
73
Peter SM2CEW
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