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

[Peter Sundberg]

At 16:29 2010-04-18 , WT2P - C. Fred Johnson wrote:
>I guess in order to get my "better" operator status back, I need to 
>bring back the old hammarlund rx and the heathkit radio from 1995 and 
>try to compete in a contest with a paper and pen?
>
>wt2p


The thing is Fred that with your statement above you, like many others,
throw something into the discussion that is totally out of context and has
nothing to do with what we are discussing. Whether you go back to old
radios and a pen has nothing to do with the key issue that we are
discussing; what constitutes a good operator? 

I am sure that the STO's (Skilled Technology Operators) think that they are
good operators when they click their mouse to build up a score, but to me
this has no value at all. It is telephone style operating and the
RBN/cluster is just another telephone directory. What am I to be impressed
with? What makes an STO superior to an operator who actually uses his
skills and knowledge to find rare stations on different bands?

I think that Jim N6TJ summed it upp pretty well.

73 de Peter SM2CEW
www.sm2cew.com