> Would you people with vision provide some ideas to me as to what
> do you
> think the biggest changes/transformations are in top level
> contesting within
> the next ten years?
>
> 73
> Tonno
> ES5TV
>
Here is what I can see through my bloory vision, based on wasaaap to day:
SDRs will obsolete our today's junk radios, just like superhet did to sparkies.
There will be SK Honor Roll, listing dead hams by the longevity/years of
contesting (some complicated formula used to calculate the score)
There will be handicap categories based on number of wheels on wheel or track
chairs, crutches, packets, lists, instant messaging.
Everything will be remoted and eventually RF eliminated and Internet virtual RF
will be used, so everyone will be equal with wirtual TX/antennas.
Contest reflector will have three moderators, specializing on proper disection
and delay of messages.
Real time reporting will be down to fractions of second with streamed video.
The losers will be promptly notified and asked to quit. The winner will be
done, nothing more to work and contest will be over.
Magazines will publish contest results in lightning 7 months pregnancy speedy
publication.
UBN police will apply 7 QSO as a penalty for foggy QSOs. The 3 QSO penalty did
not teach the slopy operators nothing, they were still making errors.
Using steroids will be wide spread and spot testing will be implemented by the
contest purity squads.
CQ WW contest finally was modernized to give other continents 10 points per
QSO, zero for own continent, so the results were more readable and clear of
those heavily populated continents losers.
Only QRP category for those still using archaic RF bands were retained in the
view that all the RF in the past has caused global warming and sunspots on the
sun.
All the top score boxes were eliminated when the liberal wing of the IARU
realized that competition is not healthy and we all should be equal. No more
categories, everyone (whiner) is a winner.
QST and ARRL under pressure from the no-coders has finally stopped to mention
and publicize anything about the contests. Peace returned to bands, QST was
full of listing who is who in the ARRL government and pictures of happy
shack-on-belters and mobilers having great time at the RF picknicks. Lot of
interesting articles about how to twist two wires together, how to use the
headphones, what is phonetics, etc.
Everyone was asking "Watsa a Contest?" Why would people suffer 48 hours
beating their brains out in a QRM? And messages, pictures, movies would keep
flying on wireless internet wagely remembering those spark and contest days
waaay back.
Firmly parked on my frequency with cheek in tongue.
Yuri, da Kay Three BUm
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