[UK-CONTEST] CQ-100 et al

[tom wylie]

I prefer to call our hobby by its OLD name


WIRELESS


Everything else is fun stuff..... do we REALLY want to turn the clock 
back 100 years and connect ourselves trogether using wires???

Call me an old fuddy duddy :-)



Tom
GM4FDM






John MacLean MM0CCC wrote:
> Dave,  doctor the image with a pair of horns and a pitchfork on the crude device!    73 John MacLean MM0CCC
>
> -- original message --
> Subject:	Re: [UK-CONTEST] CQ-100 et al
> From:	"Dave Sergeant" <dave at davesergeant.com>
> Date:		28/09/2009 8:48 am
>
> On 28 Sep 2009 at 8:12, Bob Henderson wrote:
>
>   
>> Pressures upon our HF spectrum allocation have always been high but
>> never so high as they are today.  The PLT/PLA lobby continue to focus
>> huge resources upon persuading the regulatory authorities that services
>> currently allocated HF spectrum can be better accommodated elsewhere. 
>> They argue the needs of the radio amateur community would be better
>> served through the internet. What do they know of our great passion? 
>> Almost nothing!  However, this hasn't prevented their superficial and
>> commercially biased analysis from gaining significant support.
>>     
>
> Firstly I agree entirely with Bob's comments. I am puzzled in what 
> people see in CQ100. It is not amateur radio in any sense and I have no 
> interest in going that way no matter how bad the amateur bands become.
>
> On PLT, as many of you know I have a short page on this and other EMC 
> issues at http://www.davesergeant.com/qrp/emc.htm - not updated for a 
> while but points out the problems fairly well. This morning when 
> looking at my web statistics I was a bit puzzled to see around 200 
> accesses from a very obscure address which turned out to be a gaming 
> forum - http://www.decerto-esports.eu/showthread.php?t=13825
> It seems one of the posters there had stolen my picture of the Comtrend 
> PLT adaptor and linked to it in his posting to extol the virtues of 
> these horrible things - presumably not having read what my website 
> actually said. OK, I am perhaps not totally innocent here, as I found 
> that image elsewhere on the web, but at least I had the sense to make a 
> local copy of it, rather than linking to the original, and not stealing 
> other people's traffic.
>
> I have done a little change so that people visiting my page still see 
> the right image. But the one that appears on their forum has been 
> replaced, currently with a simple one that says 'Image deleted'. I am 
> open to suggestions of a suitable replacement image that gets our point 
> across to these guys, without risk of any recriminations of course. I 
> guess since it is in a forum that post will stay there for 
> eternity.....
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> http://www.davesergeant.com
>
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