Having done my share of paper logging in my past, and winning the Can-Am
contest and WPX (for
Canada), I can most assuredly say that computer logging has NOT been a huge
boost to score. I guess I
adopted the "just shut up and work 'em" mantra to dupes long before real-time
duping was convenient,
as VV and I only duped a log after the contest. There was no penalty to work
dupes, merely to leave
them in the log. So rather than sit there with a half-acre of paper in front of
me, we just worked. And
worked. And, largely, worked just as quickly as if we'd had a computer.
Where computers have made life easier is in letting the amps and logger track
the radio, or dial in the
correct azimuth on the rotator based on the prefix sitting in the callsign
field...
Is that assistance? No, because even the rule that says "of any kind" limits it
to "DX alerting assistance."
Does a system, local or not, that shows you who is where, constitute DX
alerting? Yes. Should it be
assistance? I believe it should. Some may disagree. But, to use the words of
one of the more strident
(one could say "objectionable") debaters to this thread, let me put this in
words a first grader could
understand: we're not all going to agree on something, but that doesn't mean we
should be degrading
to others in presenting our view.
Freedom of speech, it seems, only goes as far as someone has the good sense to
not say anything.
73, kelly
ve4xt
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