[CQ-Contest] Skimmer and NAQP

[Lee Buller]

Tree nail this one....as well as many others.

NAQP should be a "fun" contest.  However you define "fun."  Technology is great, 
but shouldn't there be contests that test the human skill and not "program" 
skills?  That is why I contest...to test and perfect my human skills.  There a 
darn few people in the world that can do what a skilled CW operator does.  Yes, 
it may be old, but it is way cool. And, then...why not allow a SSB Skimmer.  Oh, 
it has not been developed!  Ha!  It makes the NAQP so much bulls**t and goes 
against the whole idea of what the NAQP was all about...a replacement for the CD 
Party...PARTY!

Technology advances are needed...but sometimes they are not wanted.  Just 
because we have the Hydrogen Bomb, does that mean we use it?  I know that is 
ridiculous and over stated, but we need to get off the technology band wagon 
sometimes.  


I cannot keep up with the amount of dollars being spent and the size of my city 
lot compared to mega-stations.   This might be good for the MasterBlasters, but 
those of us who use a modest installation of wires and beams at 30 to 60 foot on 
a common city lot with shallow pockets discourages us from getting into the 
event.  Come on! It seems that all the pistols are good for is giving the 
MasterBlasters the Q and the Mult.

Lets not allow contesting to degenerate into something that just isn't fun to 
do. I want to get beat by a superior CW operator (and you know who you are) 
rather by some free little program that gives an edge that is really not 
needed.  Learn the code.  It is fun!  


Remember the days...paper logs, dupe sheets, no telnet or spotter networks, no 
DX Cluster.  You just had to find the stations and the mults.  I do not want to 
go back...no way....but where do we draw the line?

My two cents....

Lee - K0WA


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