As a younger operator, I can tell you with 100% certainty and without a
sliver of doubt that if we were all using paper logs and footwarmers, we
would have even less attention from the younger crowd. The high-tech
stuff has "coolness potential". You can say how much fun your paper
dupe sheets and Nixon-era radios were (and probably still are), but that
isn't going to attract the new crowd.
The entire "technology" argument continues to baffle me. I don't climb
on a United Airlines two-passenger biplane to go to Florida and I don't
use a horse-and-buggy to get across town. If I wanted to do those
things, however, I would still do them. I just wouldn't complain that I
couldn't keep up with an F-22 or that the people driving Mustangs were
"cheating". I also wouldn't say that flying an F-22 or driving a
Mustang is unethical. It's the advancement of technology. Use it or
don't -- but don't say I'm any less of an operator because I do.
--
Mike DeChristopher, N0HI
http://www.n0hi.net
Idle-Tyme wrote:
> On 4/17/2010 9:26 AM, K1TTT wrote:
>
>> Right, so we all need to keep adding to our fun so we keep coming back for
>> more and attract new operators! New technology adds to my fun, so I am more
>> likely to get out on the lake to try to do something more than before with
>> it. If I had to keep using manual cw with paper logs and no spotting
>> network I would probably have given up years ago.
>>
> Really?
>
> You would have given up years ago? I am just curious as to why?
>
> I've been a ham since 1975, and a contester just as long. First
> contest was Novenmber Sweepstakes of 75, been hooked ever since. But I
> have never had a "Contest" station. I was hired out as an operator at
> big gun stations in the 70's. Well i shouldn't say "Hired" sounds like
> I was getting paid. My "Pay" was the fun of operating at a Big Gun Station.
>
> Otherwise all my contesting has been with a Drake TR-4 my second rig i
> got in 1976 after someone in a Mc Donalds parking lot hit my car and i
> used the money to buy the Drake. But my station has been just that
> Drake and Low dipoles, max elevation was like 30 feet?
>
> No computers, not clusters, even the old radio type where a local
> repeater people would announce verbally when they spot something Long
> before the packet clusters came to be. never used any of that, and
> still love contesting. only last year did i start to use the computer
> for logging,, till then it was still paper logs and dupe sheets. And it
> still remains fun. And I still don't use the clusters.
>
> Maybe all the high tech stuff has taken the "FUN" out of it for you
> where you use your skills to work as many as possible and not rely on
> all the fancy electronic stuff to find it all for you?
>
> Maybe?
>
> Joe WB9SBD
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