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

[Dale Putnam]

Being bored would then be a part of the equation to win.  ???  Hmmm. That would still be controllable and challenged by live people???  Kinda like leveling the field the same way the prop princess did this weekend for thevhf contest.

Make this a great day
Dale

> On Jun 11, 2017, at 3:54 PM, Tom Osborne <w7why1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Excellent post Bill.
> 
> Guys on the east coast just don't understand what it is to do a DX contest
> here on the left coast with the sunspot numbers in the toilet.  If we're
> lucky, we just MIGHT get an over the pole opening and be able to work some
> DX for an hour or two..
> 
> If you are on the east coast, you can run Europe on 40 with a dipole at 40
> feet and 100 watts.  We sit here listening to them and never hear who they
> are working.  Forgot about 80 - ain't gonna happen.
> 
> When single op's make bigger scores than the M/M's on the west coast, we
> need something to make it 'interesting' or take up model railroading.  73
> Tom W7WHY
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Bill via CQ-Contest <
> cq-contest at contesting.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for the heads-up on the the America's Cup. I just watched an hour
>> of it on
>> the DirecTV NBCSHD feed and it was great! A combination of high tech,
>> tactics, and
>> human athletic performance. I thought sailing was a guy sitting in a
>> little boat
>> with his hand on the rudder. Turns out to be a great team sport.
>> 
>> But I don't see how this applies to technology and where contesting is
>> "going". Is
>> your post another anti skimmer rant? Where contesting is going is a
>> sunspot minimum
>> where W1/W2/W3 will dominate even more, because of contest rules and
>> scoring. 99% of
>> contesters use "technology" to simply make the contest more fun, to make
>> more Q's.
>> Why would anyone sit in front of a radio if you can't make any Q's?
>> Contesting is
>> becoming boring even with "technology"
>> 
>> 73, Bill KO7SS in Arizona
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