[CQ-Contest] The Next BIG Step in contesting

[Ward Silver]

> Many years ago I wrote a futuristic article for NCJ that predicted that
all
> logs would be fed to a central data base in real time. The participants
would
> receive, in real time, a global map showing the two-way QSO's
graphically,
> enabling them to plot strategy based on actual propagation paths.  All we
need
> is a video game guru to put this together via Internet. The gauntlet  is
> thrown in the essence of pushing the technology envelope and, perhaps, not
seeing
> another thread about how packet is unfair.
>
> Tom  Taormina, K5RC

The map concept has been implemented as a JAVA applet for one of the 6-meter
Web pages.  QSOs are reported to the page with the grid of each end and a
line is drawn on a Mercator projection map.  I can't put my finger on the
URL at the moment, but it was quite interesting.

73, Ward N0AX