- 1. [CQ-Contest] WRTC Qualifying & RDXC (score: 1)
- Author: <w2lc@twcny.rr.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:19:25 +0000
- I don't operate assisted. Why? I'm not interested in RBN, skimmer, internet spots, etc. Those are cute technologies but of no interest to me. I do single-op, mostly one radio, and I balance running w
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2014-12/msg00160.html (9,717 bytes)
- 2. Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC Qualifying & RDXC (score: 1)
- Author: Charles Harpole <hs0zcw@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 07:15:59 +0700
- Yes W2LC, the movement to station automation lately is the evolution of real ham radio into another hobby, related but different. When some hams lost the joy of discovery and happenstance...the essen
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2014-12/msg00161.html (11,743 bytes)
- 3. Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC Qualifying & RDXC (score: 1)
- Author: "JIM NEIGER" <n6tj@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:41:03 -0800
- As I approach my 76th birthday and in my 61st year of ham radio and contesting - I often reflect on what has made my life, and ham radio in general and contesting in particular, meaningful, interesti
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2014-12/msg00168.html (15,616 bytes)
- 4. Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC Qualifying & RDXC (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike & Coreen Smith VE9AA" <ve9aa@nbnet.nb.ca>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:09:13 -0400
- To N6TJ: I think you hit the nail squarely on the head Jim !! And for guys like me I used to like working ZD8Z against impossible odds. I vividly recall working you one time back a couple decades ago
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2014-12/msg00170.html (8,491 bytes)
- 5. Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC Qualifying & RDXC (score: 1)
- Author: Paul O'Kane <pokane@ei5di.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:42:24 +0000
- <snip> Like Charly and others opine - the essence of ham radio contesting has morphed into another hobby in which the Internet appears to be the center hub. For those who use it, love it, couldn't/wo
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2014-12/msg00171.html (8,598 bytes)
- 6. Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC Qualifying & RDXC (score: 1)
- Author: Stan Stockton <wa5rtg@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:31:59 -0600
- Jim, I read what you wrote several times. Guessing there will be another similar posting within a decade when someone will yearn for the good ole days when you could click on an Internet spot and pre
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2014-12/msg00175.html (18,262 bytes)
- 7. Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC Qualifying & RDXC (score: 1)
- Author: Mats Strandberg <sm6lrr@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 09:44:25 +0300
- Jim, We are 30 years apart, but our views are so similar. I started my contesting career with a straight key and a number of copied ARRL DX Log Sheets and a pen. Next year, the key was replaced with
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2014-12/msg00176.html (18,885 bytes)
- 8. Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC Qualifying & RDXC (score: 1)
- Author: Mark van Wijk <pa5mw@home.nl>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:20:27 +0100 (CET)
- From this side of the big pond many think similar about the "old vs new" contest generations. Only few like to respond on platforms like this. It is not that we disagree with all new developments. It
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2014-12/msg00179.html (10,454 bytes)
- 9. Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC Qualifying & RDXC (score: 1)
- Author: Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr@contesting.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 07:34:59 -0500
- I'm closer to Jim's age than Mats', and I'm one of the change agents responsible for some of the changes Jim decries, but I don't begrudge him his opinion. I think there's plenty of room in our hobby
- /archives//html/CQ-Contest/2014-12/msg00180.html (18,903 bytes)
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