Topband: FW: Quo Vadis the ARRL and your DXCC program?

[py2xb]

Eddy and others

 This  is a very challenging subject. I am relatively new to 160m and my ham
spirit says the remote receivers are not aligned with ham spirit.  This is
merely a first thought. More reflections will make one,  perhaps, change its
perspective.

Take a look to  the Formula One racing (or Indy Racing for the Americans).
It became very technical and pilots have not the same tasks that Fangio or
latter Gran Hill used to accomplish during a race, in the early days. The
pilots are more technology managers nowadays.

I was always told that spaceship pilots were not real aviators. Also tech
managers.

This is  a drawback or an improvement, depending on how you see it.
That is how life goes. This will take us from one side to another side of
history.

Even before I read theses emails about SDR, I started to draw a plan to
build my remote station. I live in a noisy town RF speaking and I will
eventually build a remote station of my own. Will I break the laws that I
have imposed to myself? I need to have this straight before I expend the
first cent.

More reflections must be made having in perspective that we need to embrace
technology and adapt it to our needs. So it is likely that rules must be
re-written in order to embrace what is new and making sure we preserve the
essence of our hobby.

Finally,  it is not a matter to be For or Against remote receiving. They
will not go away. It is a matter to make it fit right.

Only 2 cents

Fred  PY2XB



2010/1/2 Edward Swynar <gswynar at durham.net>

> On 1st January, Jarda wrote:
>
> "...Should I start to weep at a new technology coming ? Yes, I also feel to
> be cheated by using Web SDR system by others, but I am aware that nobody
> could do against anything..."
>
> ************************************
>
> One doesn't necessarily have to be a charter member of "The Gray Hair Net"
> to recall that more innocent time decades ago when "real DX'ers" disparaged
> the use of MCs & lists on the air in the pursuit of the rare ones...
>
> Fast-forward to the DX scene to-day: the 2-meter DX spotting repeater has
> been eclipsed by the likes of The DX Summit...and thanks to venues like the
> ON4KST chat room, we hardly need to be bothered with the "chore" of combing
> the band anymore: just proclaim your frequency to the world via the laptop,
> and presto! In seconds you're knee-deep in callers ("...How do you hear me
> now...?").
>
> I'm neither heralding these technological developments, nor condemning
> them,
> but merely making a personal observation...
>
> I foresee the day---indeed, if it hasn't even already arrived!---when the
> ultra-contestors in our midst will simply turn on their computers at the
> start of an event...and then go to bed. The machine interfaced with the rig
> will do it all. Remember "Dr. DX" from some 2+ decades ago? IMHO. the next
> logical step is 100% automation---and the machine-like CW keying from our
> homogenous transceivers merely ensures a smooth transition this way...
>
> I saw a vision of this future in our Club's last Field Day event: not once
> did I even have to so much as touch a key / keyer / bug! Function switches
> did all of the work---and (sadly, to me at least) took all of the fun out
> of
> the equation in the process, too...
>
> ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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>



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PY2XB - Fred Carvalho