[CQ-Contest] RXDC

[Mats Strandberg]

Luis,

We never discussed QTH in this thread. That issue has been covered in
endless discussuons. Latest with reference to WRTC 2014 operation sites.

My comments refer to the fact that contesting community clearly seems to
give up traditional skillsets in favor for internet, RBN, clusters,
decoders, call databases etc etc.

And it seems we are very few who consider this a bad development ;(

If people like assisted operation, fine with me. We all work each other in
the contests and that's fine - but I sure have no desire to compete with
someone using 13 other tools I am not using...

Separate classes (non assisted and assisted ) in WRTC and as Yury VE3DZ so
correctly expressed - time for one set of rules for all WRTC. Which sport
event change rules for qualifications and rules of the game itself every 4
years?

73 de RM2D, Mats


On Friday, December 5, 2014, Fco. Luis Delgadillo <xe2b at outlook.com> wrote:

> Mats,
>
> It is not that simple, regardless of  CW speed or RBN use, do not forget
> where the QTH is located .
>
> You could be a speed demon at 80 WPM and/or have  the  best decoders, the
> best stations/antennas.....
> still you won't have  the propagation advantage of certain known
> geographic areas.
>
>
> Luis XE2B
>
>
> > From: sm6lrr at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','sm6lrr at gmail.com');>
> > Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 07:33:24 +0300
> > To: john at kk9a.com <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','john at kk9a.com');>
> > CC: cq-contest at contesting.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','cq-contest at contesting.com');>
> > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] RXDC
> >
> > John,
> >
> > You ever heard about Reverse Beacon Network or Clusters???
> >
> > In the new "modern" era of contesting.... own skills are not necessarily
> > promoted so why bother to develop excellent code skills when RBN and the
> > cluster will let you know who is in on the frequency?
> >
> > Fortunately, CW-decoders are not all that relaible so far, which means
> that
> > you still need to trust your ears if you want to be sure about the
> contest
> > exchange.Therefore, adaptation of speed from the big gun with 50 WPM can
> be
> > necessary to ensure that ALL contact is correct at both sides (not only
> the
> > callsigns and the predictable WAZ-zones).
> >
> > As WRTC2018 see no addtional value in skills to find the station on his
> own
> > (Assisted and Non-Assisted equal), why bother to strive for improvement
> of
> > code skills? And with Assisted allowed, we can also assume that one day
> > when decoders develop better, WRTC-participants can qualify without
> knowing
> > code at all. Just use your "tools" - RBN, Internet, CW-decoders, call
> sign
> > databases in your log program and CLICK!. Voila, you are in Germany right
> > away :)
> >
> > Maybe time to divide WRTC in different categories so those who prefer
> > Classic contesting without tools can have our own fun, without being
> forced
> > into a category depending on machines and internet...
> >
> > 73 de Mats RM2D (SM6LRR)
> >
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