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

[Paul O'Kane]

AB7E offers a definition of "bigotry" which he then demonstrates applies 
to himself - by engaging in an ad hominem attack.

I care about what amateur radio is evolving into, and suggested, as an 
example, the inexorable progress of data modes into unattended, 
fully-automated data processing over RF.  Here's an example from March 
this year -  I expect the technology has moved on (become even better) 
since then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50vwtGnmyd4

What would we call the "driver" of  a self-driving car?    A passenger.

What would we call the "operator" of an automated data QSO? Absent.

With regard to the fact that I don't use data modes, we all know "You 
don't have to be an actor to be a critic".  In my innocence (and 
bigotry, apparently) I always thought that amateur radio QSOs happened 
between people, not machines.  After all, it is HOW we choose to 
communicate with one another that defines us as radio amateurs.  It 
seems that AB7E doesn't agree.

73,
Paul EI5DI



On 25/10/2018 09:09, 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  That doesn't make you old, or outdated ...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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