Hi Vince
Definitely not - I was being dead serious (but, as I'm Australian,
interspersing what I said with attempts at humour).
The part of the post I made from which you made the extract is about the ARRL
getting its DXCC awards program updated to match the emergence and fast growing
popularity of the inaudible digital modes, which have a huge communications
advantage (10 to 15dB) over CW, SSB and the older digital modes such as RTTY
and PSK31.
We have an 'apples and oranges' situation here and the best way to keep the
peace between people who use traditional audible modes and those that have
embraced the new inaudible digital technology is to have separate DXCC awards.
Put yourself in the place of someone who has spent 40 years getting 300
countries on topband SSB/CW. Being considered in the same category as someone
who is using inaudible new wave digital modes to potentially achieve the same
total is unlikely to endear the former to the latter!
For the sake of 'peace in our time', let's get separate DXCC categories. Dinghy
or yacht sail boats don't compete in the same race categories as motor boats -
and this is the situation we currently have.
By the way, it is not that I don't enjoy FT-8 - as my first email said, I like
be able to decipher radio signals using my ears - which is why I've never used
RTTY, AMTOR, Packet Radio and any WSJT modes including FT-8.
I did used PSK31 a few times on 20m when it first came along because it was an
interesting technical challenge to do so, but then lost interest. As the beat
poets used to say, "it's just not my bag."
Vy 73
Steve, VK6VZ
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Not sure of to think of this. Was it another veiled dig at a mode you don't
enjoy?
A way forward to keep 'old school' modes
vibrant alongside FT-8? (long)
73 de Vince, VA3VF
On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Steve Ireland <vk6vz@arach.net.au> wrote:
>
> This 'new wave' digital award could have a new cool, 21st century-looking
> certificate (are holograms 21st century?) , would give new wave digital
> operators the chance to be among the first to get this award and would also
> give the ARRL DXCC program the chance to potentially get some extra revenue
> in issuing these awards. Of course, all the contacts would be submitted
> electronically. ;-)
>
>
>
> Vy 73
>
> Steve, VK6VZ/G3ZZD
>
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