[CQ-Contest] CQWW Survey

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

and Indy and NASCAR  racing has not evolved either.  Those are some 
might cool looking Model A's!

Mike W0MU

On 3/19/2013 1:13 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
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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,
>> 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.
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>> 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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