[CQ-Contest] Americas Cup Sailing - Watch and Learn

[Paul O'Kane]

I'd support both suggestions of N4ZR.

And, just as America's Cup boats, and all other sailboats,
rely only on wind, waves and currents for propulsion, how
about contesters relying only on ham-band RF for communication
- with no dependence on external electronic networks?

After all, that's the way the WRTC teams will do it next month.

Or, if that's a step too far, let those who communicate
over external electronic networks compete among themselves.

73,
Paul EI5DI



On 11/06/2017 07:42, N4ZR wrote:
> OK - so where is our "bright line"?  I've been arguing the need for a
> consensus on this for a decade.
>
> I hope nobody will consider me a Luddite - Iwrote arguably the first
> computer contest logger with integrated CW (for the TRS-80 Model 100
> and Commodore 64) back in the 1970s, and I'm one of the founders of
> the RBN.
>
> But... for the sake of discussion, how about:
>
> CW and SSB - all decoding and transcription of transmissions to be
> done by use of a human brain.  Yes, I know this "discriminates"
> against people who don't know CW, but it's a small price to pay to
> prevent the advent of truecontesting robots.
>
> RTTY/Digital - no modes that are capable of receiving below 0 SNR
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the Reverse Beacon Network
> at <http://reversebeacon.net>, now
> spotting RTTY activity worldwide.
> For spots, please use your favorite
> "retail" DX cluster.
>
> On 6/11/2017 7:49 AM, Ed Sawyer wrote:
>> If anyone needed to see a better display of what can happen when
>> technology
>> starts taking over a sport, this is it - on steroids.  The technology
>> has
>> developed to the point where the reserve of manmade hydraulic energy is
>> becoming a limiting factor on the boat (the boats are trying to make
>> numerous movements a minute of foils and the wing sail under heavy
>> tension
>> force requiring A LOT of hydraulic energy but with only manmade or wind
>> energy available).  This has turned the race into 2 guys doing the
>> sailing
>> and 4 guys making energy.  Computer control with helmsman inputs
>> doing the
>> rest.
>>
>>
>> The sailing crowd has been complaining for a decade now that its no
>> longer
>> sailing.  Oracles partnership with Airbus cementing that the race is
>> more
>> about getting the boat to "fly" and keeping it there is how you win the
>> race.  Is it sailing or flying now.  Calls of - enough is enough - bring
>> back real sailboat racing are becoming louder and louder. Actual crowds
>> watching are diminishing and TV coverage is almost non-existent - we
>> watched
>> the 2 hour segment only available live with no streaming or reruns
>> yesterday.
>>
>>
>> I was quickly reminded what radio contesting is starting to become.
>> If you
>> want to look into the future of radio contesting, have a look at the
>> AC.  If
>> you don't like what you see, especially of you have every sailed or
>> dreamed
>> about it, give it some thought before we become the next version of it.
>>
>>
>> Kudos to NASCAR as an example of drawing the line on it with a - it
>> still
>> needs to be car racing attitude.  No shortage of fans there.
>>
>>
>> 73
>>
>>
>> Ed  N1UR
>>
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