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

[Trent Sampson]

When I contest I prefer Multi Op categories - If I single op I tend to enter Assisted - I understand that as an assisted entrant I have fellow operators all over the planet helping my score - It is like being a super Multi- Single but you need to work them all yourself.

Considering the technology in America's Cup it is hardly traditional - If you want traditional CW then compare with sailing the 1960's Americas Cup yachts before the advent of PC designed Yachts with materials such as Kevlar 

The America's Cup modern analogy has crews from all countries - there are New Zealand and Australian guys skippering boats from All over - the USA Yacht has an Aussie Skipper 

These yachts are amazingly fast - they have on board networks to maximise the routes, instantaneous weather change monitors, monitors on pressure points on the yachts = If you want to compare the America's Cup 2018 with amateur radio you need to compare it with CN2AA because it is far more advanced than your Grandfathers America's Cup 

Saw this on Facebook today and it is a mother wondering about the "Certificate Generation" - Or the we need another category in the contest generation. 

This is perhaps where we are headed = 

http://www.scarymommy.com/kids-awards-out-control/?utm_source=FBOnsite

-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tom Osborne
Sent: Monday, 12 June 2017 7:43 AM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Americas Cup Sailing - Watch and Learn

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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