[UK-CONTEST] New CQ WW Category

[Peter Hobbs]

Only twice Callum?  I must be slipping : (
On reflection, perhaps a more suitable place to resolve this exchange is 
the bar at Wyboston Lakes . . .
Peter G3LET .-.-.

Callum m0mcx wrote:

>Twice in the last couple of months you have shot a put-down my way. Once I
>put up with it, twice is meaningful.
>
>If you haven't got something meaningful to say, don't.
>
>
>Callum McCormick
>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/ 
>t: 07976 631881
>65 Glendon Way, B93 8SY
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
>[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Peter Hobbs
>Sent: 15 June 2009 02:06
>To: uk-contest at contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] New CQ WW Category
>
>Callum
>I might very well ask you the same question, but with some 
>justification.  I suggest you review the thread, which, along with (more 
>or less interchangeably) "Remote Control", looks like its just about  
>run its course, after airing a wide range of views.
>73, Peter G3LET
>
>Callum m0mcx wrote:
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>>>>>Nobody's asking you to enter
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>>>>>          
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>>Peter, 
>>
>>Have you been following the thread or do you have compulsions to dribble in
>>one-liners periodically - particularly to my comments?
>>
>>
>>Callum McCormick
>>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/ 
>>t: 07976 631881
>>65 Glendon Way, B93 8SY
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
>>[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Peter Hobbs
>>Sent: 14 June 2009 03:04
>>To: uk-contest at contesting.com
>>Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] New CQ WW Category
>>
>>From the preliminary anouncement, the Xtreme section is effectively a 
>>separate event which happens to run  alongside CQWW.  Nobody's asking 
>>you to enter.
>>
>>73, Peter G3LET
>>
>>Callum m0mcx wrote:
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>>>>>>which shouldn't upset traditional entrants.
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>>>Wrong :)
>>>
>>>Callum McCormick
>>>http://www.m0mcx.co.uk/ 
>>>t: 07976 631881
>>>65 Glendon Way, B93 8SY
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
>>>[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Peter
>>>Sent: 13 June 2009 03:03
>>>To: UK Contest reflector
>>>Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] New CQ WW Category
>>>
>>>Roger
>>>
>>>Your system just transfers you as the operator from a practical  radio 
>>>location to somewhere you'd prefer to live, never mind the connecting 
>>>technology, which doesn't provide any additional benefit.   No changes 
>>>to the rules for the existing sections have been indicated, so you 
>>>should be fireproof!
>>>
>>>Actually, having read again  more carefully the new rules for the Xtreme 
>>>section, it doesn't look too likely to attract the sort of entrant some 
>>>of us may have been thinking of, largely because the winner will be 
>>>decided at the whim of the CQ adjudicators, who generally speaking know 
>>>what they're about.  The need to pre-register and provide a full 
>>>description of the technologies to be used should dissuade the more 
>>>unscrupulous elements.  Anyway, the scoring system puts the Xtreme 
>>>section squarely outside the main event (at least for 2009!), so all in 
>>>all they seem to have made an interesting innovation, which shouldn't 
>>>upset traditional entrants.
>>>
>>>On the subject of innovation, I remember working KH6IJ's entirely 
>>>automated and unattended 14MHz station in 1959, which would have 
>>>involved a pretty keen set-up given the available technologies.  Even a 
>>>log was kept, because I have the card.  Of course, he just kept to a 
>>>single channel and responded to calls - just think what could be done 
>>>today using Skimmer!
>>>
>>>73, Peter G3LET
>>>
>>>      
>>>