Topband: Brave New World

[wb5tuf at earthlink.net]

The contacts were not made via "the internet", they were made using a radio controlled over the internet.

I operate my home station every day using a computer in my office from 70 miles away over the internet.

It's no different than sitting in front of the equipment.

Glenn
WB5TUF


-----Original Message-----
>From: "Dave Blaschke, w5un" <w5un at wt.net>
>Sent: Feb 25, 2015 3:26 PM
>To: Eddy Swynar <deswynar at xplornet.ca>, topband at contesting.com
>Subject: Re: Topband: Brave New World
>
>Notice how ARRL is endorsing all of this. read that first paragraph, 
>especially: "The scattered K3TN team worked *via the Internet *through 
>the station of Jack Hammett, K4VV". I thought our hobby was about radio, 
>not internet.
>
>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:
>>
>> http://www.arrl.org/news/no-one-in-the-shack-as-station-logs-4200-contacts-in-arrl-dx-cw-contest
>>
>> 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..."
>>
>> 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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