[UK-CONTEST] CQ-100 et al

[Dez Watson]

Can't say I've used CQ100, don't have any desire to quite frankly but 
when people talk about working
station on 14 MHz using CQ100, am I right to assume that in such a 
contact, there is no RF radiated on 14 MHz,
or any frequency in the Radio Spectrum for that matter? If I am right in 
this assumption, then such contact is not radio
in my mind.

73

Dez, G3WW / G0DEZ





Chris Partington wrote:
> Interesting comments on CQ100.
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> I am a subscriber to CQ100, I wouldn't say I use it regularly and activity
> is still low, I have never worked anyone apart from stations on 14Mhz, but I
> don't believe anyone has mentioned that CW is mode that a great many
> subscribers use.
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> In my view this puts it in a different avenue to Skype, MSN etc. And you
> can't use CQ100 without an amateur call sign! Stations are found by calling
> CQ or by skeds not by adding contacts as in Skype or MSN etc.
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> It's great for practice, and improving my skills, using an interfaced key in
> the audio input, rather than a keyboard.
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> It's very useful for having DX contacts when condx on the HF bands are poor.
> However, I think the "simulation" of the HF bands in CQ100 is a little
> confusing, hi, and I am still not sure how it works.
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> How many people now use e.g. DX Clusters to find out levels of activity on
> the bands and the frequency of rare stations rather than tuning up and down
> the bands as in days gone by? That is not radio, but is accepted. The radio
> is then only used as a means of contacting the station. There are no
> Clusters which support CQ100.....yet.
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> I can't understand all this negativity in comments posted on this forum, it
> makes me smile. I do agree with all of the comments made by Don G3XTT in a
> very well presented posting.
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> IMO we should embrace all new technology which are in any way radio related.
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> 73's,
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> Chris G0CLP/P
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