[CQ-Contest] Remote contest operation

[John Langdon]

I thought ignorance was supposed to be bliss! 

73 John N5CQ


-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Paul O'Kane
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 1:59 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Remote contest operation


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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