Yes Ed, it is a bad idea.
Today the switch position when working a VHF contest is "Internet Chatfest
= ON". QSO's over the Internet are mandatory.
Sad to say the least. No one wants a challenge any more, it should all come
easy without anything about the QSO being unknown.
73
Peter SM2CEW
At 17:09 2015-06-11 , Ed Sawyer wrote:
>I must have "missed the memo" on this one if there was ever any dialog
>concerning this. Anyone else think this is just a bad idea?
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>How is the self-spotting not going to turn into - QSO's over the internet
>pretty quickly. It seems to me that if the ARRL wants to have a contest
>this way, someone out to be "monitoring" to keep the QSO' at least legit.
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>It will be interesting to see if this gets quickly out of hand.
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>I know that VHF contests can become boring. But there are other ways to
>fight the boredom. Watching baseball as you hit F1 comes to mind.
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>Ed N1UR
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