[CQ-Contest] bad internet servkice (was mea culpa)

[Jim Brown]

I'm with you, Scott.

> Martin N4UU said: "I also think that next big step would be real time log checking. We are all hooked to the internet why not"?

Sorry, but we are NOT all hooked up to the internet from some locations 
where we contest, and even from home, some of us have internet that is 
slow and/or erratic. W6JTI wins contests QRP from an isolated 
mountaintop in Northern California where he has no internet (and no cell 
service). I have no cell service at home. Hundreds of my neighbors have 
no cell service at home. My internet (Comcast) experiences repeated 
random dropouts at all times. During a recent storm, Comcast, telco, and 
PG&E were all down for three days.

Some contesters have been having a good time with real time scoreboards, 
and I think they should be encouraged. But to make it a requirement is 
unreasonable.

73, Jim K9YC