I was a bit surprised to find in the responses to a question
I asked about multi-single rules that they are designed to
outlaw the octopus. I fail to see why the "one signal at
a time" rule wasn't good enough.
But that's not my question. The question is that
there have been requests to provide
octopus functionality in logging software. At least
for RTTY and standard LAN networking, its possible
implement a pure software "octopus". (Because
there's no separate keyer or mic that might bypass
a software lock).
The question is, should such requests be implemented?
It makes sense for the one operator/two radio crowd
as they have only the one-signal-at-a-time rule.
But the M/S rules, and the apparent violation of
the spirit of the rules make me wonder whether the
software ought to do this.
Wayne, W5XD
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>From Paul Knupke, Jr." <pk@ij.net Fri Jan 16 01:26:29 1998
From: Paul Knupke, Jr." <pk@ij.net (Paul Knupke, Jr.)
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Re: More NAQPs
Message-ID: <00ac01bd221d$c6444200$a12804d1@homepc>
The idea of doing 10m QSO Party, Sprint or whatever in that fashion is a
great idea. The 10 meter contest in December is SO much fun, I think it
owuld be great to have something more on 10 meters exclusively.
10 meters is a band many people can operate and have a better antenna on. I
don't have room for a tribander so I use wire antennas but I was able to put
up a 10 meter, three element beam though and even though it is very modest,
I am able to do resonably well with it. I know others who have done the
same.
10 meter is a BIG band and the propogation can be so interesting so I'm all
in favor of another ten meter contest. Maybe summer? I know 10 meters can
be bad in the summer.
The idea of doing eight or ten hours and having half phone and half CW is
great idea. Two seperate contests but only one weekend.
As to 160 -- I don't operate 160 meters much so I can't really comment much
on a QSO Party type of contest there. I know that summer is a bad time
though, and know that high power is preferable.
73 de KR4YL
Paul
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