[na-user] Throw away the TNC ?

[Bob Perring]

In reading the recently posted story on the CQWW SSB operation for the 
ZX0F operation, http://www.contesting.com/_3830/9911/0823.html
I read, as reported by K1ZM, the following:
"The experts in software also worked very hard to learn and adapt CT to 
DXTELNET, and how to put both on a reliable communications network for 
use in a contest."

I had never given any thought to using anything other than wireless 
communications from any radio position that I might be operating from 
in a DX contest, figuring that I should, as a minimum, use an antenna 
as the sole path for going out and getting any info I might need during 
a contest, but I guess the incorporation of twisted pair communications 
into our contest activities is now a part of the scene.

Does NA allow for the use of packet spots being received from a modem 
connect over the telephone line, DSL line, whatever, into our "radio" 
contesting?
Looks to me as though there is no longer any need to use a radio linked 
TNC in our radio linked contesting activities.

I suppose, taking this theme a step further, if I understand things 
correctly, there is no longer any need to just use RF as our sole means 
of making contest contacts and gathering point enhancing information 
during a contest.

Kind of sorry to even be asking this question.
N5RP




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Bob Perring
Amateur Radio Station N5RP
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