Who is bigot?
Nobody is arguing or opposing of technology developments and progress in
ham radio.
What the problem is trying to accept the "jet engine powered bicycle
competing with human powered bicycles in Tour de France".
Preserve "classic" categories (Phone, CW, RTTY digital - talking, Morse
code, digital)
Consider keeping real licensed stations with operators present.
Rest, have "Wild" category where anything goes.
Having transgenders beating women is not progress or competition. Bigot
is crap being forced on those trying to maintain sanity in competition.
Yuri, K3BU
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 04:09 AM, David Gilbert wrote:
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What do you care what the data modes are evolving into if you don't
use them (even RTTY) and they don't affect the CW and SSB contests
that you do use?
I don't get it. Amateur radio is thankfully a lot broader than your
definition of it, and for the most part manages to keep the various
modes segregated enough to satisfy everyone. It makes zero sense to
bitch about what other people do if they aren't negatively affecting
you. That doesn't make you old, or outdated ... it makes you a bigot.
"Bigot: A /bigot/ is a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any
opinions differing from their own."
Dave AB7E
On 10/23/2018 1:50 PM, Paul O'Kane wrote:
As we move ever closer to fully-automated data modes, the divide
between data and
non-data modes gets bigger. When and if the operator becomes
incidental, what will
be the point of such contest QSOs - other than bragging that my
software is smarter
than yours?
WSJT-X may be the "flavour of the month" now - but, next month, or
certainly next
year, something "better" will turn up - as the potential for "new and
improved" data
modes is limitless. Some see this as progress in amateur radio and
contesting - I see
it as progress in automated two-way data processing over RF.
It seems to me that any mode that is not and can not be decoded by
individual
contesters (people) in real-time does not truly represent amateur
radio. But what
would I know, being just an old-fashioned (outdated?) contester who
keeps to
phone and CW :-)
Some will argue that we have to keep up, we can't stop progress, and
that amateur
radio and contesting are evolving. I say that data modes are
evolving into something
else entirely.
73,
Paul EI5DI
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