Contesting is merely an activity, Paul, and it hasn't been pure
operator-to-operator for decades. Not with Super Check partial, not
with self-completing log entries, not with memory keyers, and not with
Call History files generated by somebody else. It is whatever the
contest sponsor declares it to be, period. If you think some aspect of
the terminology has lost its purity, fine ... but that's all it is.
Evolution is not always subversion ... sometimes it's just different.
Voice your displeasure all you want, but that doesn't mean it represents
some sort of moral decay worthy of despair.
Dave AB7E
On 4/11/2013 11:58 AM, Paul O'Kane wrote:
Over the last few days, this thread has included
the terms listed below.
I don't recognise amateur radio contesting in
any of them. Most are technical terms specific
to the internet, a public communications utility.
Whatever relevance the internet has to contesting
in general, in remote contest operation it serves
only to replace or displace amateur-band RF
between contesters.
Those who choose, or are obliged, to get on the
internet before they get on the air are doing
something fundamentally different from the rest
of us. We're all entitled to do what we please,
but we're not entitled to do what we please and
call it what we please. Internet-dependent
contesting is not the same as amateur-band-RF-
all-the-way contesting, even when the operators
at the far end can't tell the difference and
when contest sponsors ignore the difference.
Read, and despair :-)
VPN
packet-loss
delay-spikes
traffic prioritisation
network path
audio-streaming
intermediate server
restrictive ISPs
peer-to-peer
client download
participating client
firewall
port restrictions
server and client
public IP
VPS
encrypted traffic
packet inspection
throttling
dropped packets
latency issues
56mb download speeds
routing
incoming packets
ADSL
fail over to 3G
Skype
cyberworld
jitter
realtime audio over UDP
4G LTE connection
traffic shaping issues
point-to-point microwave
local service provider
73,
Paul EI5DI
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