The SDR recordings are good for knowing what happened over the air. The
station recordings help to know what the operator was actually doing. For
example, a station tuning through the band and working spotted multipliers
will sound the same on the SDR recordings, but is very obvious listening to
the operator's headphone recordings.
The SDR recordings are way cool and the technology for making them keeps
improving. But, the resulting files can be huge. Big enough that it is
actually faster to ship the hard drives around the world rather than copy
the files between servers!
Using the SDR recordings can be time consuming as there is not an easy way
to jump to a particular time and frequency on demand. It is sometimes very
enlightening to hear what actually happened over the air.
While extremely valuable, not sure SDR recordings will solve every need. The
real question should be whether the station recordings provide enough value
to be worth the effort.
As Tree points out, none of this will matter if we don't keep encouraging
new blood to enjoy and enter contests!
Randy, K5ZD
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Tree
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 5:49 PM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Attention CQWW SO2R Competitors
>
> Ken - K6MR (aka WB6VFJ) opines:
>
> "If they have access to "full-band, SDR recordings", why should I need to
> record anything"?
>
> I would think that the network of SDR recorders will continue to grow and
> make the recording rule obsolete within 5 years. Hopefully - that will
> precede contesting becoming obsolete by many years.
>
> Tree N6TR
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