[CQ-Contest] Cheating with Technology

[Richard Thorne]

I maintain that your both wrong.

Rich - N5ZC



Paul O'Kane wrote:
> Hal Offutt asked
>
>   
>>> Why does it matter where the operator is?
>>>       
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> Joe Subich, W4TV answered
>
>   
>> The operator is an integral part of the station and without the 
>> operator ... there is no contact.  
>>     
>
> I'm with Joe on this one.
>
> Why not compare a telephone call to a QSO.
>
> Everyone accepts that a telephone call is a person-to-person
> event.  In the same way, a QSO is person-to-person event,
> with amateur-band RF as the medium.  I maintain that QSOs
> are diminished to the extent that the path between the
> operators is anything other than RF.
>
> For practical purposes, there has to be a "wired" path at
> each end of a QSO - from the antenna to the operator.
> It seems to me that the current 500-metre "standard" for
> contesting hardware is big enough to include operators.
>
> 73,
> Paul EI5DI
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