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

[MARK BAILEY]

Good day:

I actually doesn't WANT to be connected to the internet when playing on the radio as a single operator.  Assisted and multi-operator activities already require an internet connection to be competitive.

Forcing internet connections for all participants looks to me like another effort to eliminate single operator categories.

73,

Mark, KD4D

> On March 30, 2017 at 10:42 PM Jim Brown <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> 
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