[CQ-Contest] CQWW Survey

[Jerry Muller]

Before there was GPS, the top America's Cup boats had multiple on board 
MicroVAX computers with radio links to big VAXen (the official plural of 
VAX) on shore and SERIOUS inertial nav systems. Most of them had loads of 
serious sensors measuring almost everything. They really put our skimmers to 
shame :-)

Jerry - K0TV

-----Original Message----- 
From: Randy Thompson K5ZD
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 3:13 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQWW Survey

I bet sailboat racing was a lot different before they had GPS.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Paul O'Kane
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 3:48 PM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQWW Survey
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> On 19/03/2013 13:13, Bob Naumann wrote:
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> > While some pine for the days of yore when there were no devices
> > containing silicon involved in radio,
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> I don't know what that is intended to mean.
> Does anyone?
>
> > the reality is that packet, spotting networks, et al are now fully
> > part of amateur radio DXing and contesting landscapes.
>
> Let's stick with contesting in this thread.
>
> Packet, and spotting networks et al are now inseparable from the
> internet.  There's nothing wrong with using the internet while
> contesting.  It's not illegal, it's not against the rules, but it is
> different.
>
> The use of a commercial communications utility to find and facilitate
> QSOs in an amateur radio contest is far removed from using nothing but
> amateur radio to do the same.  Seems a pity this has to be repeated so
> often.
>
> By comparison, no one, anywhere, uses another form of propulsion in
> sailboat racing and claims to be sailing.
>
> Those sailboat racers must all be living in the past.
> Don't they know that nothing stands still, and that new technology is
> here to stay?  Why, then, don't they use it? They're probably pining for
> the days of yore :-)
>
> Given that, however it happened, it's now perfectly acceptable for
> contesters in assisted categories to use the internet, isn't it time we
> started using terms such as "SO Connected" and "SO Unconnected" to better
> describe the two categories?
>
> 73,
> Paul EI5DI
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