Topband: Brave New World

[Dave Blaschke, w5un]

This is just the beginning!

Dave, W5UN

On 2/25/2015 9:05 PM, Eddy Swynar wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I am really & truly surprised that nobody here has raised so much as even an eyebrow at this story:
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> http://www.arrl.org/news/no-one-in-the-shack-as-station-logs-4200-contacts-in-arrl-dx-cw-contest
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> The whole notion---to me, at any rate---compromises the very essence & the "...joie de vivre!" of operating on 160-meters, don't you think...? And to imagine that one of the "perpetrators" in all this is actually exuberant about his accomplishment...
>
> “...'No one was in the K4VV shack for the entire contest!' said Mike L*, W0**, who took part in the contest via K4** from his own shack in Virginia..."
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> This too is "progress"...? Oh well, I guess maybe it is. Time marches on, things evolve, things "de-evolve," & nothing stays quite the same.
>
> ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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