[UK-CONTEST] May 2m Contest

[Paul O'Kane]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ray James" <gm4cxm at yahoo.co.uk>

> Your message is an absolutely perfect example why the
> CC decision to ban KST/Cluster use in RSGB VHF contests
> was seriously flawed.

It's an amateur radio contest.  It seems to me that any
alternative communications technology, used for the sole
purpose of increasing your score, is inappropriate (to
say the least).

> your remoteness and QTF to most operators deem KST/Cluster
> use a necessity to either arrange a schedule with no
> guarantee of success but certainly to experiment.

In the context of contesting, it might be a "bonus" but
it's not a necessity.

> if you are observed exchanging information over non-radio
> means pertinent to assisting completion of a contact.

It seems to me (and this applies equally to HF and VHF)
that the use of non-radio means to assist completion of
a contact in an amateur radio contest is the height of
nonsense - regardless of how the present situation
evolved.

The fact that it is encouraged by some societies and
organisations simply highlights the sheer illogicality
of it all.  Are we amateur radio contesters or amateur
internet contesters?

73,
Paul EI5DI