[CQ-Contest] ARRL Field Day

[Nathan moreschi]

Joe,
 
You make a good point about tuning people in, but that is a skill that is needed and will only get better with practice. It's really not a hard skill for someone to master. I would think a new operator could master that well within an hour.
 
Clicking on spots is quick and cool, but at the same time a new person may not really understand what is going on when they click and shout.
 
73,
 
Nate/N4YDU

--- On Thu, 6/10/10, Joe <nss at mwt.net> wrote:


From: Joe <nss at mwt.net>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL Field Day
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Date: Thursday, June 10, 2010, 9:18 AM


On 6/10/2010 5:39 AM, jpescatore at aol.com wrote:
> AB7E said:
>
>    
>> Forcing people to look at the hobby the way we did 40 years ago isn't
>> going to be much of  a draw.
>>      
> To some extent, you are right - if the goal is to just increase the number of contesters, then recruiting
> video gamers by making radio contesting look like video gaming is probably a better way to go. But,
> if the goal is have more young operators like RZ9UMA get into contesting, different story.

Thing is, a kid with these skills did not need the bells and whistles of 
all the fancy stuff to make it fun!  Being a new person to contesting, 
and even on SSB if it's soo new and strange that they are lucky to even 
make a few QSO's a hour is doing great.  It's boring to them,  but with 
the click and shoot, then they are making lots of contacts,  way cool yes?

I can not say how many times i have just cringed listening to a newby 
tuning is someone on SSB.  Where we experienced folk tune and in 0.5 sec 
are right on,  they ever soo slowly creep along and of course pass being 
right on, and than start to creep again the other way and again 
overshoot.  maybe two or three minutes later they are finally withinn 
.5Kc of being on freq, and are now trying to call the person.

where with a good program they see a new station,  and click  wham bam 
right on freq and ready to yell at them.

Joe WB9SBD
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