Paul,
It most likely doesn't apply to a large percentage of Hams, but here locally
I am a member of a large group of Hams who use digital microwave in the
amateur bands for remote control of base stations. We use all the same
'terms' you specify. Historically, from the early 1970's, these circuits
have been done on discrete UHF radio channels with analog voice and tone
controls. Now we are digitizing them to a great advantage.
I personally do digital IP based amateur radio transmissions via my own
amateur band microwave frequency radios for remote base operations. It
doesn't bother me at all that the 'terms' applied to the radio frequencies,
radio equipment, terminal equipment and the modulation techniques I utilize
for my Ham operations originated in some other universe.
And I call it what it is; AMATEUR RADIO!!!!!!!!!
You have your opinion, and I have mine.
73 de Milt, N5IA
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul O'Kane
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:58 AM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Remote contest operation
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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