[CQ-Contest] IRLP Contest

[k8gt@twmi.rr.com]

Oh, c'mon Craig.  This is ham RADIO.  We use radio to make the whole communications link.  You can't tell me that you could work VK with a 2 meter rig no matter how big the antenna or amp.  Not even by satellite.  Anything else is NOT radio.  Just using an HT to link into the internet is just that, a link.  It is bad enough that we spend our time on here instead of on the air communicating the way we should.

73, Gerry K8GT  Enjoying Ham RADIO for the past 46 years.

----- Original Message -----
From: Craig Cook <craig.n7or at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 3:17 pm
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] IRLP Contest

> Dale is right. As many of you are mis-informed, you need at least a
> radio to work IRLP. It is ONLY a linking protocol. You CAN NOT 
> work it
> with just a soundcard and a headset as somebody insisted to me
> off-list. I think that if just a few of these guys get interested in
> contesting through this, heck, 1 guy, wouldn't that be to you
> contester's benefit? The real truth seems to be that you really don't
> want any newcomers. Keep ridiculing them, calling them
> "shack-on-a-belt" guys. In a few years you can all work each other and
> the contests will take up less of your weekend.
> N7OR