[CQ-Contest] RXDC

[Paul O'Kane]

On 05/12/2014 18:01, VE5ZX wrote:
>
>> Except that no traditional skill represents an alternative
>> communications mode to ham-band RF. 
>
> Hmmm - not sure the way we use the Internet in contests that it is an 
> alternative to ham-band RF.

I can help. By relying on internet-hosted spots,
whether cluster or RBN, we find stations that
unconnected contesters are less likely to find by
tuning up and down the bands - RF goes in both
directions.

>   I have never had a QSO on the Internet.

Why deny something that has not been said or suggested?

> I still make them with my radio using RF ;)

Yes, and when we shoot fish in a barrel we're still
"catching" fish.

> And clusters were around a long time before the Internet - remember 
> packet radio?

Yes, I remember it well, and if we were still using
packet radio there might be a point to this argument.
However it happened, and however well-intentioned
everyone was along the way, "connected" contesters
are now dependent on the internet for the extra mults
that unconnected contesters miss.

Nothing wrong with that, it's a personal operating
choice.  But they're not entitled to force the rest
of us, the unconnected contesters, to do the same
as the only realistic option for WRTC qualification.

> The Internet is merely an extension of operator tools like keyers, 
> transceivers, SDR radios, logging programs.

VE5ZX is repeating an assertion from his previous
post.  We know that repeating assertions, without
evidence, is merely expressing a point of view.

> But doesn't matter because from your posts over the years there is 
> nothing that is likely to extend your view into the present from the 
> past ;)

When all else fails, get personal?  :-)

73,
Paul EI5DI