[CQ-Contest] A new "DX cluster" experience for contesters

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

And the bug, memory keyer, voice recorders, SO2R and on and on all killed
contesting too?

RBN is amazing technology like it or not.  

I will installing an all band QS1R setup in Montana/Colorado.  I see a great
value especially on 6m with all the beacons.  RBN stations setup around the
globe will catch many lost openings.  Not to mention another station
"watching" the bands.

The high tech "cool" stuff is our only hope to draw in new people to the
hobby.  

I agree with Pete, it will have little impact on the honest SO entrants.
Cheating has been going on for a long time whether that be illegal power,
packet when not calcimining assistance, multiple xmitters per band, remote
receiving antennas etc...

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Paul O'Kane
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 4:38 PM
To: CQ-Contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] A new "DX cluster" experience for contesters

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Smith" <n4zr at contesting.com>


> Metaphorical loom-smashing aside, I think that this
> development will have little impact in the world of
> single-op contesting, given the rules that have been
> put in place in the last couple of years.


This development is, in terms of amateur radio contesting,
a weapon of mass destruction which, rather than being
subject to stringent controls, has been put into the hands
of anyone with an internet connection - in effect, all of
us.  

The fact that something can be done does not always mean
that it is worth doing.  The people who have developed
this technology can congratulate themselves on the 
introduction of a fundamental change in the nature of
contesting, to the extent that it has been largely
debased. 

They may argue it's just a natural extension of existing
technology - the cluster.  If so, doesn't that raise a
question about the legitimacy of the cluster?

Regardless of how we got here, or how well-intentioned
the developers were/are, we should not be here.  The
internet serves only to undermine amateur radio - by
putting the wires back into wireless.

73,
Paul EI5DI
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