[RTTY] 2004 RTTY Roundup -lets stir the pot again!

[Marty Tippin]

It's too bad you guys can't come up with original arguments - the "wire vs 
beam" and "hand log vs computer" and "east coast vs midwest" crap comes up 
every single time anyone dares to say anything about SO2R, even though the 
arguments being made about SO2R are different every time...

-NW0L


At 06:10 PM 1/9/2004, WI8W wrote:
>I have another suggestion...
>
>...how's about an article on how easily the ops with COMPUTERS AND CONTEST 
>LOGGING SOFTWARE blow away the competition.. Look at a couple of years 
>worth of contest scores and compare the highest LOGGING SOFTWARE scores to 
>the highest done with PAPER AND PENCILS scores (in high and
>low power categories) to show that the best LOGGING PROGRAM scores on 
>average 1/4th to 1/3rd higher than the best WRITTEN BY HAND scores; that 
>LOGGING SOFTWARE provides a greater advantage than by WRITING ALL THAT 
>DAMN STUFF BY HAND(compare PAPER AND PENCIL high power to LOGGING SOFTWARE 
>low power scores which shows that LOGGING SOFTWARE LP wins over
>HAND WRITTEN HP almost every time); and, why contest committees,led by the 
>ARRL, continue to refuse to acknowledge the LOGGING SOFTWARE advantage, 
>including published admissions by top LOGGING SOFTWARE ops that it is a 
>fantastic, though somewhat complicated and costly advantage to obtain.
>
>anyone else have any ideas?
>
>73
>
>Thom WI8W
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