[CQ-Contest] WSJT-X For contests - Dry Run

[Yuri Blanarovich]

Who is bigot?
Nobody is arguing or opposing of technology developments and progress in 
ham radio.
What the problem is trying to accept the "jet engine powered bicycle 
competing with human powered bicycles in Tour de France".
Preserve "classic" categories (Phone, CW, RTTY digital - talking, Morse 
code, digital)
Consider keeping real licensed stations with operators present.
Rest, have "Wild" category where anything goes.

Having transgenders beating women is not progress or competition. Bigot 
is crap being forced on those trying to maintain sanity in competition.

Yuri, K3BU

 
 
 On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 04:09 AM, David Gilbert wrote:
 
 >
> What do you care what the data modes are evolving into if you don't 
> use them (even RTTY) and they don't affect the CW and SSB contests 
> that you do use?
>
> I don't get it.  Amateur radio is thankfully a lot broader than your 
> definition of it, and for the most part manages to keep the various 
> modes segregated enough to satisfy everyone.   It makes zero sense to 
> bitch about what other people do if they aren't negatively affecting 
> you.  That doesn't make you old, or outdated ... it makes you a bigot.
>
> "Bigot: A /bigot/ is a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any 
> opinions differing from their own."
>
> Dave   AB7E
>
>
>
> On 10/23/2018 1:50 PM, Paul O'Kane wrote:
>> As we move ever closer to fully-automated data modes, the divide 
>> between data and
>> non-data modes gets bigger.  When and if the operator becomes 
>> incidental, what will
>> be the point of such contest QSOs - other than bragging that my 
>> software is smarter
>> than yours?
>>
>> WSJT-X may be the "flavour of the month" now - but, next month, or 
>> certainly next
>> year, something "better" will turn up - as the potential for "new and 
>> improved" data
>> modes is limitless.  Some see this as progress in amateur radio and 
>> contesting - I see
>> it as progress in automated two-way data processing over RF.
>>
>> It seems to me that any mode that is not and can not be decoded by 
>> individual
>> contesters (people) in real-time does not truly represent amateur 
>> radio.  But what
>> would  I know, being just an old-fashioned (outdated?) contester who 
>> keeps to
>> phone and CW :-)
>>
>> Some will argue that we have to keep up, we can't stop progress, and 
>> that amateur
>> radio and contesting are evolving.  I say that data modes are 
>> evolving into something
>> else entirely.
>>
>> 73,
>> Paul EI5DI
>>
>
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