[UK-CONTEST] ON4KST

Paul O'Kane pokane at ei5di.com
Tue May 19 07:16:29 PDT 2009


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

> The ON4KST system is primarily an aid to communication for
> those whose interests are to be found within terrestrial
> and non-terrestrial (EME) operation on VHF, UHF and the
> Microwaves bands where experimenting on particular paths,
> be they via tropo scatter, meteor scatter, aircraft scatter,
> E's, aurora, rain scatter etc are commonplace, not HF.

Great for experimenting certainly, but surely this is a
contesting forum?

> There has been a lot of uninformed nonsense written here ..
> Some of the attributes of using ON4KST:

Even an uninformed person will realise, from the list
of attributes, that it is a real-time internet-based
communications system.

> No wonder it's an award winner.

Does that somehow validate its use by contesters?  Are we
amateur radio contesters or amateur internet contesters?

73,
Paul EI5DI


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