[CQ-Contest] Automation = lost essential skills

[Charles Harpole]

Lost old skills.  Where is cursive writing going and then how can we have
signatures?
What is 682 divided by 26?  We only do that by calculator.
The mic is broken and we need to send SOS and don't know Morse code
especially to decode the answer  (that BTW says, "Are you pretending?" and
leaves you when you do not answer).

Too, I found that teaching film editing with real film strips allows
learning in good ways that exceed learning editing by computer.

There is at least one other human activity that is best "the old way" an
intimate human activity.  Old skills lost are like extinct animals... cant
be recovered.  Ch



On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:02 AM, David Siddall <hhamwv at gmail.com> wrote:

> Kelly,
>
> You are right in my book too.  But one exception is sweepstakes.  I don't
> know the rationale, but some years ago the ARRL contest manager ruled that
> in sweepstakes only discrete complete exchanges are allowed.  This extra
> requirement doesn't seem to appear explicitly in the current rules (at
> least that I can find), but I remember a lengthy thread on the subject on
> this reflector.
>
> Example 1:  NOT PERMITTED even though all required exchange information
> transmitted & received.
>
> VE4XT:  CQ CQ SS de VE4XT
> K3ZJ:     K3ZJ
> VE4XT:   K3ZJ 145 A 66 MB
>
> Example 2: Required exchange necessitates repeating call.
>
> VE4XT:  CQ CQ SS de VE4XT
> K3ZJ:     K3ZJ
> VE4XT:   K3ZJ 145 A VE4XT 66 MB
>
> 73, Dave K3ZJ
>
> *-.-. --.-*
>
> *ve4xt at mymts.net <http://mymts.net>* ve4xt at mymts.net
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> *Wed Nov 20 22:27:59 EST 2013*
>
> That depends. If the receiving station heard the callsign, then the
> callsign was sent, even if people who came late to the frequency
> didn't hear it.
>
> An example:
>
> qrz, w1xyz
>  (vy2zm and g3tuc are now listening and know who is on frequency.
> (IOW, they've heard w1xyz send his call))
> vy2zm
> vy2zm 599 05
> 599 05
> tu
> g3tuc
> g3tuc 599 05
> 599 14
> tu
> k1zz
> k1zz 599 05
> CL?
> w1xyz
> r w1xyz 599 05
>
> In my book, all three QSOs are legit. Everybody received w1xyz's call.
>
> Am I right?
>
> 73, Kelly
> ve4xt
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Charly, HS0ZCW