You are right Dave, but when I am sailing, it is a rule that Power gives
way to sail.. and Sail gives way to rowboats. It is not acceptable for Power
to run over the canoes and rowboats..
- but those rules have never applied in my 55 years on the air.-
Jerry, _w3dmb@arrl.net_ (mailto:w3dmb@arrl.net)
"canoe"
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In a message dated 4/17/2010 8:43:29 A.M. US Eastern Standard Time,
K1TTT@ARRL.NET writes:
The problem is Pete, that since in our contests all those different entry
classes are running at the same time on the same lake people get confused
and think they are a sailboat competing with a power boat... where the power
boat operators usually ignore the slow poke sailboats and just watch each
other.
David Robbins K1TTT e-mail: _mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net_ (mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net)
web: _http://www.k1ttt.net_ (http://www.k1ttt.net) AR-Cluster node:
145.69MHz or _telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net_ (telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net)
-----Original Message----- From: Pete Smith [mailto:n4zr@contesting.com]
Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 10:36 To: CQ Contest Subject: Re:
[CQ-Contest] A new "DX cluster" experience for contesters
In the 19th century, mechanical propulsion largely replaced sail as the
motive power for commercial and military ships. In the 20th century,
internal combustion engines and the invention of the outboard motor made it
possible to dispense with sails and oars on almost all vessels.
Yet sailboats and rowboats persist today, and are a source of great
pleasure for millions. Intense and popular competitions among both types of
vessel take place frequently and attract millions of enthusiasts world-wide.
At the highest level, sailboat competitions such as the America's Cup
involve use of extremely advanced technology on the non-propulsive side of the
bright line defining the sport. Competitions among powerboats occur too, from
small outboards to boats powered by huge gas turbine engines.
I hope my point is obvious.
73, Pete N4ZR
On 4/17/2010 4:00 AM, Christian Schneider wrote: VE5RA wrote:
So begins the 'age of the robots'.
But it will be only one more of those smaller and bigger steps in the
development - applauded as keeping up with progress and maybe gaining new
blood.
Will it be two or three years that the first M/M-stations "man" their
160m-station during daylight and 10m during nighttimes with a qso-robot? Or
is this already done? Given the ingenuity on the software side it may take
"only" some combining of decoding-technology with expanded ESM-routines of
existing contest software. Initial stumbling may be irrelanvant with the
rates at that time and allow refinement to adjust it for coming things.
An(y) operator will be present in a(ny) room there. This becoming more
widespread it will earn the ususal criticism by irrelevant small guns refuted
with
the argument they seemingly still want to operate with a straight key. With
becoming more widespread even some bigguns may feel bored but won´t dare
to utter it publicly in the presence of chestpounding colleagues. Acting may
begin [IRONY ON] if more bigguns get fire from XYLs because they
unintentionally checked the ECAR-box ("effective contest analyzing routine")
in
their software which starts at 0001 after the test and ordered the OH8X`
3-ele 160m-beam (flawlessly interacting with the online-banking software)
because there were three unworked skimmer spots from Africa on that band.
[IRONY OFF].
Disclaimer: This is NO condemning of the technology itself. It is kind of
sorrow that this blending taking place in smaller and bigger (i.e. skimmer)
steps changes the flavour of the hobby substantially. At some points of
blending wine with pepsi it detracts some from it but of course may attract
new consumers. Again: Like skimmer all this is tech-wise interesting and,
yes, also fascinating, but at the same time somewhat saddening. Like it or
leave it, I know and will do. We´ll only have some rule debate, some rule
changes and may be some more retreats as far as "unassisted" is concerned. Not
much more to do.
Of course you are free to denounce this as "whining" - if you also think
that a marathon-runner is techwise backwards only because he is fascinated by
the techwise less effective way to span 42,5 km.
Best 73, Chris
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