K5MO wrote: I'll gladly prefer using a key to turning on a "station" and
letting computers blather at one another unattended for a weekend under the
guise of "ham radio contesting".
Computers are doing that already in my beloved closed field of chess! They
also do a lot of financial transactions unattended and occassionally cause a
crash.
Ham radio HF contesting includes ionosphere propagation which might be
simulated, modified in real time but we do NOT controll the Universe or even
the Sun.
I vividly remember poor condx during first SCC RTTY contest which I
organised!
On August 27th, 1998 an unusual star exploded some 15.000 light years away
from us but
caused havoc in the ionosphere for the next few days. It was newly
discovered only 3 month
ago and named magnastar with the strongest magnetic field ever recorded of
10**15 Gauss
compared with our poor Earth of only 0.6 Gauss. Even sunspots produce only
1000 Gauss outbursts.
I used oldfashioned keyer paddle last YUDX weekend and it was not much fun
anymore :-(
73 de Mario, YU/S56A
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