[CQ-Contest] WW SSB - the corruptive influence of packet

[Michael Tope]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker at kenharker.com>

> 
> (d) The contests would be better off without packet at all.  One option
>    is always to turn it off and tune the radio instead.
> 
> -- 
> Kenneth E. Harker WM5R

The really annoying thing I found this weekend were the stations 
who were only identifying every 5 or 10 minutes because they 
had a steady diet of packet assisted stations feeding their pileups 
who knew their callsign a priori. As a single-op unassisted, it's a 
royal PITA when you are trying to make the most of your operating 
time to have to sit on a frequency for 5 or 10 minutes listening to a 
huge pileup and wondering if you really need that station for a 
multiplier because he won't identify. 

Packet can be fun if your just chasing DX, so I won't rain on 
packet user's parade (sometimes I am a packet user), but I just 
wish that the rare DX in the contests wouldn't assume that we
are all using it all the time. Send your call each QSO like 
ZD8Z/N6TJ does. 

73 de Mike, W4EF.....................................................