[CQ-Contest] Moral outrage

[Jim Rhodes]

Then I would suggest to you that you not participate. Go sulk in your cave.

Personally I do enjoy some of these modes. Especially those that are
"buried in the noise". At my urban QTH noise is sometimes just about all I
can hear with my ears. So by your reasoning I should just shut down the rig
and remain silent. I prefer to make some RF & Qs. Even if I have no chance
of making top scores.


On Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 10:14 PM Jeff Clarke <ku8e at ku8e.com wrote:

> Anything you can't hear with your human ears isn't real radio. At least
> with digital modes such as RTTY you can hear something. In many FT8
> contacts the signal might be as much as 20db below the noise. I'm not
> against FT8. In fact I worked my last mainland state, South Carolina, on
> 6 meters using FT8. But it isn't a contesting mode since it takes a
> minute or more to make a QSO. In any digital contest why would you even
> go to FT8 when there seems to be plenty of people to work using regular
> RTTY?  The top scorers in the recent ARRL RTTY Roundup made over 2000
> QSO's and had zero FT8 contacts.
>
> It's also puzzling to me that a contest such as Winter Field Day is
> getting so much attention. I never realized it was such a major contest
> that someone would be gripping about the rules on the contest reflector.
> I would suggest those of you who think FT8 is the next greatest thing in
> contesting to just go and sponsor a FT8 only contest. It's clear to me
> that those who are sponsoring contests might agree with what I'm saying
> and that's why they aren't adding FT8 to their contest.
>
> Jeff
>
> On 1/17/2019 11:10 AM, Ria Jairam wrote:
> > There’s really no comparison.
> >
> > There is **NO** accusation whatsoever that SSTV is “not real radio” or
> “computers talking to computers” or “destroying ham radio.”
> >
> > ALL of these claims have been leveled against FT8, rather unfairly I
> must add.
> >
> >
> > Ria
> > N2RJ
> >
> >> On Jan 17, 2019, at 11:06 AM, Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I intend to boycott the California QSO Party.
> >>
> >> SSTV cannot participate.
> >>
> >> Do you think they’ll miss me?
> >>
> >> 73, de Hans, K0HB
> >>
> >> --
> >> 73, de Hans, K0HB
> >> --
> >> "Just a boy and his radio"™
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