[CQ-Contest] The Future is Now

[Kenneth E. Harker]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 04:12:59PM -0500, Jamie Dupree wrote:
> 
> I love all the ideas about a contest cookbook and more - but why a book?
> Why not just all kinds of information assembled and presented
> via the internet?

When was the last time you read an entire book that was published on the 
Internet?  
 
Books are excellent because they can be used anywhere - not just where 
you have a computer.  The web hasn't made all printed media obsolete
by any means.

> The recent battle with the ARRL over contest information in QST
> really might be over already in one way.  We don't wait for months =
> anymore to
> see our scores - we immediately put them on the net. =20

We do not immediately post scores on the net (I assume you are 
referring to 3830 at contesting.com.)  We post score _rumors_.  There is a 
HUGE difference.
 
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