Topband: Brave New World

[Steve London]

Here we go again with this remote discussion.

It's like the movie Groundhog Day.

Can we QRX this discussion, for, say, 6 months before rehashing the same 
tired arguments ?

73,
Steve, N2IC

On 02/25/2015 02:54 PM, Joe K2UF wrote:
> Money talks, see full page 8 add in recent QST mags.
>
> K2UF
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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