[CQ-Contest] CQWW Assisted discrimination

[Tim Makins, EI8IC]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Frank Norton KB8XU" <franknorton at home.com>
> Hello all,
> No Goran,most people are not "cheating" as u put it, many simply don't use
> spotting of any kind (other than their own scanning and band
> mapping).  Many of us have found that packet spotting is a waste of
> resources and time.  We have found our time better utilized by searching
> diligently for "the WEAK ONES" that others blow by and these certainly
> never get posted on a spotting net of any type.  Another vital
> point-->there really are a vast number of locations that only have
electric
> service 12 hours per day little lone a satellite internet connection.  We
> really need a single op unassisted, high or low power segment---simply
> because that is the reality for a very large proportion of hams.  Some by
> choice, but many by the very nature of their QTH or station ability.
>

Well said, Frank. And not all of us even have access to packet links. My
nearest station is not receivable at this QTH, and even if I did want to tie
up my one phone-line for 48 hrs, the service provider has software that
drops the line at intervals, even on a
'pay-once-for-as-much-as-offpeak-usage-as-you-like' account. Hams in the US
probably forget that in other countries, local calls are not free.

Tim www.qsl.net/ei8ic/ - a happy user of the SD contesting software, with no
packet support.




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