The contacts were not made via "the internet", they were made using a radio
controlled over the internet.
I operate my home station every day using a computer in my office from 70 miles
away over the internet.
It's no different than sitting in front of the equipment.
Glenn
WB5TUF
-----Original Message-----
>From: "Dave Blaschke, w5un" <w5un@wt.net>
>Sent: Feb 25, 2015 3:26 PM
>To: Eddy Swynar <deswynar@xplornet.ca>, topband@contesting.com
>Subject: Re: Topband: Brave New World
>
>Notice how ARRL is endorsing all of this. read that first paragraph,
>especially: "The scattered K3TN team worked *via the Internet *through
>the station of Jack Hammett, K4VV". I thought our hobby was about radio,
>not internet.
>
>On 2/25/2015 9:05 PM, Eddy Swynar wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I am really & truly surprised that nobody here has raised so much as even an
>> eyebrow at this story:
>>
>> http://www.arrl.org/news/no-one-in-the-shack-as-station-logs-4200-contacts-in-arrl-dx-cw-contest
>>
>> The whole notion---to me, at any rate---compromises the very essence & the
>> "...joie de vivre!" of operating on 160-meters, don't you think...? And to
>> imagine that one of the "perpetrators" in all this is actually exuberant
>> about his accomplishment...
>>
>> “...'No one was in the K4VV shack for the entire contest!' said Mike L*,
>> W0**, who took part in the contest via K4** from his own shack in
>> Virginia..."
>>
>> This too is "progress"...? Oh well, I guess maybe it is. Time marches on,
>> things evolve, things "de-evolve," & nothing stays quite the same.
>>
>> ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
>> _________________
>> Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
>>
>
>_________________
>Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
_________________
Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
|