[RTTY] The SO1R/SO2R debate

[ve3iay at storm.ca]

I think this discussion is getting overheated. Adding or not adding another 
category will not mean the end of contesting as we know it. People who take the 
other side of the argument are not ogres or demons, nor are they igoramuses, 
they are just people with another point of view.

IMHO, listening on another band while your radio is transmitting is a great 
idea, and no-one is being penalized, stigmatized, or whatever for using this 
technique in the open single-operator class; nor should they be. But I also 
think that the distinction based on whether a station is using this 
multiplexing technique or not is pretty significant, perhaps up there with 
using HP vs. using LP, and the NAQP and other contest results would be more 
meaningful and potentially useful to me if I could see which stations were 
using this method and which ones were not. The simplest way to do this is to 
create another category, but it's not the only way - lumping everyone in the 
same category while reporting the information in an added column would achieve 
pretty much the same result for me.

I can get more fun out of looking at the results if I know which other stations 
are most comparable to mine. Give me the information so I can see how I am 
doing relative to my peers, and also some real data on how much of an 
improvement I could hope to achieve by doing whatever it takes to adopt this 
technique. The end result is that I will get more fun out of contesting and 
participate more - isn't that what everyone wants?

73,
Rich VE3IAY