My longtime friend George said: Eliminating our category-of-choice seems a
rather shabby reward for our trust and devotion over not just years, but
decades. George I’m 100% with you on this.
Operating assisted is not the new normal, just because someone declared it to
be.
Not everyone has high speed and reliable internet access. I don’t, it’s getting
better but the reliability is still rather poor. I even have power outages 7-8
times a year, fortunately usually short duration. I have a generator for that.
But no back-up for the internet going down. As and I write this my internet
access just came back up from being out since about 11PM last night.
I am not going to buy skimmer, or integrate internet spots into my operating. I
suppose I could, but I’m not. I have no interest in that. And if I have to
compete against those that are assisted, I won’t, I’ll bypass that contest.
Sure I look at DXSummit once in a while, for DXing yes, but not for contests.
And the RBN is fine and interesting, I’ve used that to see how my signal stacks
up against others. But for contesting, nope not interested.
I pass by most stations when the packet pileup starts. I have a decent enough
station to break pileups fairly quickly, but it’s not worth playing DXer and
sitting in a pileup too long. And to those that don’t ID, you have a nil
waiting for you, since I do not use spotting to get your callsign.
I have been operating more and even sending in my logs, trying to build back up
to giving a couple contests a full effort. Assisted only categories will drive
me out of contesting, I won’t waste my time on that.
And George’s take on who may not be aware of the survey is valid, Bob. Avoiding
that does not make it better. There are many contesters who do not even look at
this reflector, so posting it here is good but not all that effective. How many
casual but interested contesters even read this reflector? I would say not many.
73 Scott W2LC
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