[CQ-Contest] Past Prediction of the Future of Contesting.

[Paul O'Kane]

On 22/08/2021 22:49, rjairam at gmail.com wrote:

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> Hams being so anti technology is mind blowing. I have never seen such
> a paradox except in ham radio.
>
> (yes, it also talks about skill but that doesn't mean we have to shun
> technology).

Not all technology is, by definition, appropriate.  When new 
technologies change the fundamental nature of an activity, the very 
thing that gives that activity its name, then the name needs to change 
accordingly.

After all, add an engine (200-year-old technology) and sailboat racing 
becomes powerboat racing.

The issue facing ham radio is that some technologies have the potential 
to eliminate operating skills entirely.   To object is not to be 
anti-technology - it is to be anti-inappropriate-technology.

There has to be limits - I suggest a digital non-proliferation treaty 
might be in order.

73,
Paul EI5DI