[VHFcontesting] We have a Situation here....

[Dave Weir]

There is a check box on the front end of WSJT-X NA VHF Contest. When
selected it will only exchange grid squares instead of signal reports.
Everyone makes mistakes, no one is born a contester. Instead critizing, why
not offer a helping hand. Sure there will be those who can't take advice.
So one should move on,

On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 12:30 PM Alan Larson <wa6azp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Peter Laws <plaws0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Um.  No.  Nothing else in amateur radio is "idiot-proofed" why a
> > particular piece of software?  If an op is education-proof which,
> > granted, is a growing problem generally not just in radio, then just
> > don't work them..  Or work them and don't log them.  If they ask why
> > you didn't upload to LOTW (or whatever), tell them.
>
>   Being a bit of a grump about such things, this was my first thought
> when I read of the issue.  After thinking about it a bit, I realized
> that the problem is that there may be more folks with a HF+6M radio
> that treat it as 20 meters than there are VHF+ folks on the band
> now.  VHFers may ignore them, but they will keep on working each
> other, ignoring us.
>
>   This is a general problem with over rapid assimilation of folks
> from a different culture.
>
>   By the way, I really enjoyed your term "education-proof".
>
>         Alan
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