[CQ-Contest] Assistance & Entry Status

[Paul J. Piercey]

Hi Jim,

Interesting. Never looked at it that way. I see your point but it would seem
more appropriate to have a dedicated network set up between club members
rather than broadcast information to the masses (ie. competition). Would all
club members be required to use the cluster?

I imagine that N1MM (and others) can be linked across the Internet so would
it be feasible to build a feature into them that would create a VPN for
clubs members to merge their scores and have a dedicated spotting network
between stations using that software? I guess it's easier to use the
existing structure.

73 -- Paul VO1HE 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim 
> Reisert AD1C
> Sent: November 5, 2007 23:25
> To: vo1he at rac.ca; cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Assistance & Entry Status
> 
> --- "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey at nl.rogers.com> wrote:
>  
> > I have been trying to understand why a group as seemingly 
> competitive 
> > as contesters would even think of spotting stuff for their 
> rivals to 
> > benefit from. They spend small (or large) fortunes setting 
> up hugely 
> > elaborate stations in order to beat "the other guy" and then turn 
> > around and tell "the other guy" where the points are.
> 
> We are not just competing "mano a mano", but also as part of 
> contest clubs, and spots benefit all the club members.
> 
> I remember the days when links between certain packet 
> networks (like YCCC and
> FRC) were taken down just before a world-wide DX contest 
> started, then restored later.  Ah, the good old paranoid days.
> 
> 73 - Jim AD1C
> 
> 
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