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Re: [CQ-Contest] Past Prediction of the Future of Contesting.

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Past Prediction of the Future of Contesting.
From: David Hachadorian <k6ll.dave@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 09:54:44 -0700
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I liken the RBN to a broker between buyers and sellers.  The broker finds buyers (S&P'ers) for the sellers (CQ'ers).  The efficiency of the market is drastically improved for both.  CQ'ers are happy because people are answering their CQ's, and they get a chance to be on the receiving end of a pileup, which is the ultimate excitement of CQ'ing.  S&P'ers are spared the soul-killing tedium of tuning across a band filled with dupes. Think of Sunday afternoon in CW Sweepstakes for example.

Yes, there are some drawbacks, such as rare DX being inundated by callers, but even they have some slow times, and can benefit from being spotted on less-frequented bands.

When you've got the RBN tuned for zero errors, such as every CC-Cluster does, it's a beautiful thing.

Dave Hachadorian, K6LL



On 8/23/2021 9:23 PM, Hans Brakob wrote:
Wow! I don’t want it to exist?  Really, Ria, I didn’t think that is what I meant at 
all.  It already exists but thankfully hasn’t been adopted by hams.



Voice recognition technology is not some bleeding edge technology being 
pioneered by amateur radio as the world waits for us to prove it out.  Siri has 
been doing it for decades.



And it really has nothing to do with “advancing the radio art”.  Voice recognition is “post radio”, more 
properly characterized as “information processing” technology, not “amateur radio technology”.



In some aspects of amateur radio I think that it might well be a VERY useful technology, for 
instance traffic handling during an incident involving an EOC, the Red Cross, or other served 
agencies where analog voice could be “translated” to printed hard copy messages.



Meanwhile this thread deals specifically with “the Future of CONTESTING”.



The purpose of a voice contest is to test for the SKILL of an operator to 
identify a target station, contact that station, accurately copy specified 
bit(s) of information, and transcribe that accurately to a log.  The key word 
is SKILL!  A voice skimmer (with a logical follow-on that copied and logged the 
exchange) completely obviates the need for operator SKILL, and in fact obviates 
the need for the contest at all!


Rather than advancing our skills and the radio art, it serves to diminish the 
development of our skills and contributes nothing to the art of radio.



73, de Hans, K0HB





From: rjairam@gmail.com<mailto:rjairam@gmail.com>


But "Please, no, a thousand times NO!" by Hans means that he doesn't want that 
piece of tech to exist.



Ria

N2RJ



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