[CQ-Contest] Internet Assisted

[John Geiger]

Kind of like entering Tour de France on a motorcycle.

73s John AA5JG

--- On Thu, 7/22/10, Paul O'Kane <pokane at ei5di.com> wrote:

> From: Paul O'Kane <pokane at ei5di.com>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Internet Assisted
> To: CQ-Contest at contesting.com
> Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010, 7:49 AM
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Pete Smith" <n4zr at contesting.com>
> Subject Was : Speed Change Prevents Skimmer Spot
> 
> 
> <snip>
>  
> > Sailboats and powerboats (I'm a sailboat guy) - there
> > is room for both in our ocean.
> 
> That's an inappropriate analogy for "unassisted" and
> "assisted"
> 
> Our ocean is communications and we are the sailboaters
> of this ocean - using othing other than the natural
> elements of amateur-band RF to communicate.
> 
> Once you use an alternative communications technology
> to find or facilitate contest QSOs, you may be still
> in the communications business, but you're not a radio
> amateur - not even "assisted".  You're an internet
> amateur.
> 
> In the same way, anyone who uses a mechanical form
> of propulsion on water is not a sailboater, even when
> he is sharing the ocean with sailboaters (and even 
> when, from a distance, his boat looks like a sailboat).
> 
> Time to drop the term "assisted", and call it what it
> is - the internet or, if you must "internet assisted".
> 
> 73,
> Paul EI5DI
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