"In the new "modern" era of contesting.... own skills are not necessarily
promoted so why bother to develop excellent code skills when RBN and the
cluster will let you know who is in on the frequency?"
That may be one of the saddest statements on contesting skills & style I have
ever read on this reflector.
Mats, no disrespect intended... but the answer to your question as to "why
bother?", at least for me, is to improve my personal skill set, so that I can
still operate in situations where the technology or technological assistance is
not available, for any of a dozen or more possible reasons.
I think I'll leave replies on your comments to those who are more interested or
involved in qualifying for or running WRTC-2018.
73, ron w3wn
On 12/05/14, Mats Strandberg wrote:
John,
You ever heard about Reverse Beacon Network or Clusters???
In the new "modern" era of contesting.... own skills are not necessarily
promoted so why bother to develop excellent code skills when RBN and the
cluster will let you know who is in on the frequency?
Fortunately, CW-decoders are not all that relaible so far, which means that
you still need to trust your ears if you want to be sure about the contest
exchange.Therefore, adaptation of speed from the big gun with 50 WPM can be
necessary to ensure that ALL contact is correct at both sides (not only the
callsigns and the predictable WAZ-zones).
As WRTC2018 see no addtional value in skills to find the station on his own
(Assisted and Non-Assisted equal), why bother to strive for improvement of
code skills? And with Assisted allowed, we can also assume that one day
when decoders develop better, WRTC-participants can qualify without knowing
code at all. Just use your "tools" - RBN, Internet, CW-decoders, call sign
databases in your log program and CLICK!. Voila, you are in Germany right
away :)
Maybe time to divide WRTC in different categories so those who prefer
Classic contesting without tools can have our own fun, without being forced
into a category depending on machines and internet...
73 de Mats RM2D (SM6LRR)
2014-12-05 5:07 GMT+03:00 <john@kk9a.com>:
> If the CW is too fast I am wondering how you know the station's callsign
> when you answered their CQ. If you need to hear the report again you can
> always ask but many times you already know it from listening to the
> previous
> QSO(s).
>
> John KK9A
>
>
> To: "CQ-Contest@contesting.com" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] RXDC
> From: Pedro Colla <pedro_colla@hotmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 12:19:15 -0500
>
> >Hans (K0HB) says>Say WHAT?>You miscopy my exchange, and >> I << get a
> penalty?
> >?This makes ME responsible for YOUR error?>Did the Democrats make up this
> >rule? {BSEG}>73, de Hans, K0HB
>
> Perhaps it helps to see an exchange during a contest as a brief partnership
> during a brief time to both achieve a goal, in this case to stack the
> points
> associated with the exchange. If you're running at 50 wpm and I do answer
> you at 30 wpm, when you reply you're also saying that a) you want my
> business and b) you understand that my business occurs at 30 wpm. If your
> part of the business is performed at 50 wpm and I copy you wrong, who's
> responsible of the the miscopy You or me?
>
> 73 de Pedro LU7HZ
>
> Dr. Pedro E. Colla
> Va.Belgrano-Ciudad de Cordoba
> Cordoba- Argentina
> "Que el hombre sepa que el hombre puede.".A.Barragán, Expedición Atlantis..
>
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