[CQ-Contest] VHF Contest - Self Spotting

[Peter Sundberg]

Yes Ed, it is a bad idea. 

Today the switch position when working a VHF contest is "Internet Chatfest
= ON". QSO's over the Internet are mandatory.

Sad to say the least. No one wants a challenge any more, it should all come
easy without anything about the QSO being unknown.

73
Peter SM2CEW





At 17:09 2015-06-11 , Ed Sawyer wrote:
>I must have "missed the memo" on this one if there was ever any dialog
>concerning this.  Anyone else think this is just a bad idea?
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>How is the self-spotting not going to turn into - QSO's over the internet
>pretty quickly.  It seems to me that if the ARRL wants to have a contest
>this way, someone out to be "monitoring" to keep the QSO' at least legit.
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>It will be interesting to see if this gets quickly out of hand.
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>I know that VHF contests can become boring.  But there are other ways to
>fight the boredom.  Watching baseball as you hit F1 comes to mind.
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>Ed  N1UR
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