[CQ-Contest] Packet pile ups - do we need them?

[Mike Gilmer - N2MG]

On Tue, 28 November 2000, K3BU at aol.com wrote:  
  
> I remember the days when contesting	
> depended on the operator skill on   
> finding the multiplier, and DX had   
> fun working one after another as   
> people were discovering it and   
> working in nice sequence.  
>  
  
Well, the rude pileups are nothing new.    
Years ago, before CT, bandmaps and packet,   
operators with marginal signals would tune   
the bands, calling stations instead of	   
running.  It seemed they all had the same   
complaint back then, too, "If I try to run,   
I cannot control the pileup."  So packet   
has not caused this problem, but it has   
made it acute - a situation that might	   
have built up over many minutes now occurs   
in just one or two, depriving the DX of   
almost any time running.  
  
I'm not trying to defend packet - if it   
went away (which it won't), I wouldn't	   
miss it much.  
  
73 Mike N2MG  
  

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