[CQ-Contest] Re:CQ-Contest digest, Vol 1 #310 - 5 msgs

[llindblom at juno.com]

Unless you have spent some time operating RTTY contests please do not put down those of us that do.  It is not all machine nirvana and just watching the equipment do everything.  It still takes some brain power and close watching of the screen to know when to switch decoders or change the settings and, to copy partial print, shifted characters and other anomalies of RTTY.  

73 and how many more days till FQP??

W0ETC
  

Message: 5
Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 01:29:27 -0400
From: Jim White <k4oj at tampabay.rr.com>
Reply-To: k4oj at tampabay.rr.com
Organization: Florida Contest Group
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] but are YOU really

There was a barrage of comments related to CW being outclassed by PSK31 
including the following which was typical of them:


"Digipan allows you to copy 2 PSK31 signals at once.  W1SQLPSK allows you
to copy up to 20 (yes, twenty!) PSK31 signals at once."


I believe the problem, which you will in turn say is semantics, that a 
lot of us have is that we feel statements like the above are just plain 
wrong.

Why?


Because the OPERATOR is NOT COPYING the signals ... a machine is.


If this is indeed the direction we are headed I guess things like 
contesting and WRTC are history - after all it will be which engineer 
has access to the best components and can design the best boards for 
their "decoders"


This is also the reason why a lot of us do not even both investigating 
PSK31 - it isn't operating ... I also feel the same way about RTTY. If I 
am not having to use my brain to decipher sounds and turn them into 
contest exchanges, etc. it is not operating (to me) .


What is the sizzle, what is the romance, why bother?


Data exchange is not operating, IMHO. That's what the internet is for!



And I agree that it is possible to copy more stations at one time on CW 
than phone - if you are really good!

73, am not trying to start a fire just stating my opinion - granted it 
is from someone who feels older than N6TJ.

73,

Jim, K4OJ










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