[UK-CONTEST] GI1W claimed score ?

[Tom Wylie]

Personally,  I'm very fond of grouse!  of either type  hehe

73 de tom
gm4fdm

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andy swiffin" <a.l.swiffin at dundee.ac.uk>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] GI1W claimed score ?


> >
>>
>>>>> "Chris Tran ZL1CT" <zl1ct at gm7v.com> 17/11/2004 05:53:52 >>>
>>Hi Robert et al
>>
>>Any word of a claimed score for GI1W in CQ WW SSB ?
>>
>>On a separate issue, I was amazed to read a posting recently from a
> UK
>>contest station along the lines of 'our mult station could not
> function
>>properly because the DX Cluster link was down' ..mmm.... I don't want
> to
>>hurt anyone's feelings, but surely the whole point of a 'mult' station
> is
>>that it finds and works multipliers, usually by the old-fashioned
> method of
>>tuning around and finding them (which is a heck of a lot more
> interesting
>>than just clicking on a spot) ?
> 
> I'm glad I saw this.  I was wondering if I'm the only one who thinks
> that the DXcluster is the worst thing ever to happen to radio and
> particularly to contests.
> 
> Whatever happened to the fun of the chase, winkling out weak stations,
> carefully tuning looking for something new to work. 
> 
> It's like someone going out hunting grouse on the moors, having their
> armchair delivered to the top of the hill and sitting there passively
> while someone else runs around catching the grouse and bringing them
> along to be shot by the sloth in the chair.  OK I'm sure you'll get lots
> of grouse that way but its not really the point is it!
> 
> DX on a plate sir?  No thanks  ;-)
> 
> Cheers
> Andy
> gm8oeg
> 
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