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

pa5mw at home.nl pa5mw at home.nl
Thu Oct 25 12:43:07 EDT 2018


Dave & Maarten,

Will you please refrain from personal attacks and bad mouthing?

Please allow other people to offer an opinion.

Please discuss and allow that sometimes in the end (if there ever is one) you do not agree, or the other has the final word.


Kind regards,

Mark, PA5MW






-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com> On Behalf Of Maarten van R
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2018 3:53 PM
To: David Gilbert <xdavid at cis-broadband.com>
Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WSJT-X For contests - Dry Run

Dave,

I fully agree. It’s too bad that so many focus only on the negatives.

Fortunately it really helps a lot to bitch and moan about our evolving hobby on reflectors like this one. Otherwise it would be completely pointless, hi.

73, Maarten PD2R


Op do 25 okt. 2018 om 14:10 schreef David Gilbert <xdavid at cis-broadband.com>

>
> 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  That doesn't make you old, or outdated ...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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