[CQ-Contest] CQWW Survey

[David Gilbert]

And autopilots, and LCD map displays, and depth sounders, and 
self-furling jibs, and ... it's a pretty long list.  I'll bet there are 
very few sailors today who go beyond the sight of shore without some 
non-traditional means of navigation and operation.

73,
Dave   AB7E


On 3/19/2013 12:13 PM, Randy Thompson K5ZD wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>