[UK-CONTEST] 80m CC's and the data leg

[Clive GM3POI]

I think your wrong Phil, Most use PC logging to save the problem of sending 
in entries I believe some of the all time records have been achieved using a 
pencil, after all you only have to fill in call and one number even in the 
CCs. I can't see  your rate would drop to less than  90 like that. 73 Clive 
GM3POI
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Cooper" <pcooper at guernsey.net>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 80m CC's and the data leg


> Hi all,
>
> Oh boy! Can't keep out of this one!
>
> Dave G4BUO wrote that he thought the DATA legs were ".....just two 
> computers
> talking to each other.....".
>
> Yup, that may well be true, but RTTY contesting is a rapidly growing 
> section
> of the hobby, and personally, I don't have a problem with that.
>
> If it comes down to that level of thinking, then I suspect that the vast
> majority of CW legs are nothing but the same! Just what proportion of the 
> CW
> ops are sending by hand, and paper logging?
> OK, there will be a few, I agree, but I bet that the vast majority are 
> using
> some sort of software to send pre-prepared buffers, and to log the 
> contacts.
> I can already hear the cries of "but you have to decode it in your brain" 
> or
> the like. Yes, agreed, but without your PC, most would be slowed down 
> quite
> considerably, and would log far fewer contacts per 90 minutes!
>
> One other important point is the number of ops who have taken up RTTY
> contesting after getting to grips with the mode in these contests. Even 
> last
> year, there were only a handful of G's in any of the major RTTY contests.
> This year, there have been dozens. I suspect this is largely due to the 
> 80m
> CC's.
>
> I am not so sure that PSK is a valid contset mode though, and this IS a
> personal opinion. 100 watts is way too much to use on PSK, especially
> inter-G. I would guess there are also very few PSK logs in each of the 
> DATA
> legs, but there is no way to know, as all are listed as DATA.
> Can anyone shed any light on the proportion of RTTY to PSK logs?
>
> So, RSGBHFCC, please retain the data legs! Maybe you should consider
> dropping the SSB legs??
>
> And I agree with Andy GM8OEG... Surely this is a wind-up?
>
> 73 for now
>
> Phil GU0SUP
>
>
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