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From: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
>
> (d) The contests would be better off without packet at all. One option
> is always to turn it off and tune the radio instead.
>
> --
> Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
The really annoying thing I found this weekend were the stations
who were only identifying every 5 or 10 minutes because they
had a steady diet of packet assisted stations feeding their pileups
who knew their callsign a priori. As a single-op unassisted, it's a
royal PITA when you are trying to make the most of your operating
time to have to sit on a frequency for 5 or 10 minutes listening to a
huge pileup and wondering if you really need that station for a
multiplier because he won't identify.
Packet can be fun if your just chasing DX, so I won't rain on
packet user's parade (sometimes I am a packet user), but I just
wish that the rare DX in the contests wouldn't assume that we
are all using it all the time. Send your call each QSO like
ZD8Z/N6TJ does.
73 de Mike, W4EF.....................................................
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