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Re: [CQ-Contest] Self Spotting

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Self Spotting
From: W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu@w0mu.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 16:31:20 -0600
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The only rant I have seen so far is yours. I was simply providing my experiences. You don't have to agree with me.

The delete key is over there.

73


On 2/26/2017 12:09 PM, Peter Sundberg wrote:
Mike, I am getting pretty tired of your constant plea (rant) for new rules that allow everything that the Internet can provide at the cost of diminishing RF communication to a mere fraction of the game.

Please, do us a favour - write down and publish your set of rules for the perfect contest and go look for a sponsor for it. Sponsors must be standing in line waiting for your info as you have so eloquently told the world that old style contesting is dead. Especially dead for us who prefer the challenge of "unassisted" contesting.

So, it must be time for your type of contesting now, else we're all bored to death before long. Go for it, you know what it takes to attract people.

When you have found a sponsor for your contest, let us know the dates so we can mark them in our almanac. For other activities.

Peter SM2CEW




At 16:33 2017-02-26, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
and when there are few contacts to me made or found, people stop looking and do something else.

W0MU


On 2/26/2017 10:04 AM, Ed K1EP wrote:
"The point of contests should be to make lots of contacts. "

Not necessarily. The point for some, is to FIND lots of contacts, not just make them. Everyone is different. When single op, I don't use spotting or packet, I prefer the challenge. When at a MM, I adapt to whatever the setup, but I still turn the knob to find contacts more than clicking.

On Feb 26, 2017 10:49 AM, "W0MU Mike Fatchett" <w0mu@w0mu.com <mailto:w0mu@w0mu.com>> wrote:

    I am very surprised that nobody has created a huge multi user
    version of DR. DX for the internet.  I would be great fun.  DR. DX
    was pretty amazing for the time.  I know there is a modern day
    equivalent but it has not been implemented on a large scale where
    everyone is tied together, scoreboard, etc.

    This is one reason that Ham radio is having problems attracting
    and getting people on the air.  You can engage with people all
    over the globe very easily and for free.  No huge towers or
    investments needed.  Talking to someone in Russian, Germany,
    Japan, or wherever is much more common today.  I probably have
    more foreign friends on Facebook than I do local.

    Radiosport and ham radio are about having fun and learning for
    me.  Sitting and calling endless CQ's on RTTY is not fun. The
    point of contests should be to make lots of contacts.  If the
    rules are reducing the amount of contacts then we have failed. Are
    more contacts made when packet is allowed?  I think so. NAQP RTTY
    last night might be an example.  Packet is discouraged and I
    noticed a number of people that were discouraged from the contest
    for just that reason.

    There is nothing magical, mystical or fantastic about unassisted
    anymore.  For me it is something that has become archaic, old and
    very much behind the times.  I have a buggy for my draft horse and
    it is fun to drive now and then but I much prefer to hop in my
    pickup truck to get around town. Many of the rules are difficult
    at best to enforce, power, packet, etc and then when the rules are
    enforced the decisions of the organizers are criticized when there
    has been no real proof provided by either side.

    Interesting times we are in.

    W0MU




    On 2/26/2017 6:21 AM, Ed Sawyer wrote:

        Why don't we just skip the radio part and just work each other
        in a chat
        room.  That would be the fairest right?


        Radiosport is ABOUT communicating over the airwaves and
        putting what we hear
        in the log.  Not about accepting what the bandmap populated
        and hitting
        enter.  Its also about the technical challenge of producing a
        good loud
        signal and being able to hear.  Otherwise its essentially
        gaming.  There are
        lots of outlets for people wanting to game.


        I was CQing on 160 last night and had 2 EU stations call me
        that clearly
        could not hear me but were broadcasting a Q (faking it), from
        the spot, to
        try and get the Vermont Mult into the log.  I can hear them
        with my
        beverages no problem.


        I personally think Self Spotting is the end of contesting as
        we know it and
        should NEVER be allowed.


        At least with the RBN, a radio does have to pick you up to put
        it on the
        net.


        Until there is an SSB RBN, the effort should be for fairer
        spotting.  The
        easiest way is for the major contest clubs around the world to
        implore their
        members to set the "spot all S & P" on their software programs
        and for that
        to be the default position for programs going forward. How
        hard is that?


        Ed  N1UR

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