[CQ-Contest] Remote contest operation

[David Gilbert]

Contesting is merely an activity, Paul,  and it hasn't been pure 
operator-to-operator for decades.  Not with Super Check partial, not 
with self-completing log entries, not with memory keyers, and not with 
Call History files generated by somebody else.  It is whatever the 
contest sponsor declares it to be, period.  If you think some aspect of 
the terminology has lost its purity, fine ... but that's all it is.  
Evolution is not always subversion ... sometimes it's just different.  
Voice your displeasure all you want, but that doesn't mean it represents 
some sort of moral decay worthy of despair.

Dave   AB7E




On 4/11/2013 11:58 AM, Paul O'Kane wrote:
>
> Over the last few days, this thread has included
> the terms listed below.
>
> I don't recognise amateur radio contesting in
> any of them.  Most are technical terms specific
> to the internet, a public communications utility.
> Whatever relevance the internet has to contesting
> in general, in remote contest operation it serves
> only to replace or displace amateur-band RF
> between contesters.
>
> Those who choose, or are obliged, to get on the
> internet before they get on the air are doing
> something fundamentally different from the rest
> of us.  We're all entitled to do what we please,
> but we're not entitled to do what we please and
> call it what we please.  Internet-dependent
> contesting is not the same as amateur-band-RF-
> all-the-way contesting, even when the operators
> at the far end can't tell the difference and
> when contest sponsors ignore the difference.
>
> Read, and despair :-)
>
>   VPN
>   packet-loss
>   delay-spikes
>   traffic prioritisation
>   network path
>   audio-streaming
>   intermediate server
>   restrictive ISPs
>   peer-to-peer
>   client download
>   participating client
>   firewall
>   port restrictions
>   server and client
>   public IP
>   VPS
>   encrypted traffic
>   packet inspection
>   throttling
>   dropped packets
>   latency issues
>   56mb download speeds
>   routing
>   incoming packets
>   ADSL
>   fail over to 3G
>   Skype
>   cyberworld
>   jitter
>   realtime audio over UDP
>   4G LTE connection
>   traffic shaping issues
>   point-to-point microwave
>   local service provider
>
> 73,
> Paul EI5DI
>
>
>
>
>
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