Bill, Score Reporting is NOT spotting. I'd like to see you find ANY
station in a contest by looking at someone's score breakdown.
Even so, it would be easy to report only total score/mults to a scoreboard.
Would that satisfy the "old guard" mentality?
I doubt it.
73, Gerry W1VE
On 5/28/07, Bill Turner <dezrat@copper.net> wrote:
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> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
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> On Fri, 25 May 2007 20:51:43 -0400, Hank Greeb <n8xx@arrl.org> wrote:
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>
> >Why do we say that to be in a particular category one must operate with
> >pre 1980's technology?
>
> ------------ REPLY FOLLOWS ------------
>
> Why? Well, since you asked, a lot of us think that spotting networks
> are a plague on contesting. A lot of us still like to use that big
> knob in the middle of the radio to find stations to work.
>
> You can agree or disagree but that should answer your question.
>
> Bill W6WRT
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