Topband: Brave New World

[Joe K2UF]

Money talks, see full page 8 add in recent QST mags.

K2UF

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From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dave
Blaschke, w5un
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 4:26 PM
To: Eddy Swynar; 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-i
n-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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