On 26 Feb 2004 at 10:20, John Barenys wrote:
> RIGHT ON... any mode that is not voice or CW should be
> automatically disallowed as they have no place in
> amateur radio.
Although the attempt at sarcasm is appreciated, you seem to have
misunderstood. I don't think WSJT, Ham-IM, etc. have no place in
amateur radio. Far from it. I think they have no place in
*contesting* - this is a VHF "contesting" forum.
I especially think the high-speed meteor stuff is fascinating because
it explores otherwise undetectable long-distance propagation, which
is cool. The Ham-IM stuff is just boring - it's a software gee-whiz
and does nothing to further the radio "art".
Neither should be allowed in VHF contesting as I've known it over the
past 27 years. If someone wanted to do a WSJT-type mode only
contest, that would be fine. A Ham-IM contest wouldn't make much
sense to me though...but hey if that's what you want to do...go
ahead, but don't look for my call on your screen.
> Just because it is not something you would use in a
> contest, or day to day, there is no reason to condemn
> them to being a "fun toy".
It's not a condemnation...nothing wrong with toys...a time and place
for everything I say. Hey, I've played with many, if not most,
modes out there over the years, including WSJT. Some are more
interesting than others, but the only ones that involve real operator
skill - detection and decoding of the signal by the human brain - are
phone and CW (and the argument that one can use a machine to read CW
is ridiculous - at least I've never seen a machine that could
reliably read CW sent at varying speeds in high noise environments -
humans do much better at copying CW than machines, especially under
contest condx).
> Amateur radio to me is "playing" so I think that I
> will try to use as man fun toys as I can.
That's exactly what I mean - why can you consider these gee-whizes
toys and I can't?
73 de Lee
--
Lee Hiers, AA4GA
Cornelia, Georgia
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