Before there was GPS, the top America's Cup boats had multiple on board
MicroVAX computers with radio links to big VAXen (the official plural of
VAX) on shore and SERIOUS inertial nav systems. Most of them had loads of
serious sensors measuring almost everything. They really put our skimmers to
shame :-)
Jerry - K0TV
-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Thompson K5ZD
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 3:13 PM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQWW Survey
I bet sailboat racing was a lot different before they had GPS.
-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Paul O'Kane
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 3:48 PM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQWW Survey
On 19/03/2013 13:13, Bob Naumann wrote:
> While some pine for the days of yore when there were no devices
> containing silicon involved in radio,
I don't know what that is intended to mean.
Does anyone?
> the reality is that packet, spotting networks, et al are now fully
> part of amateur radio DXing and contesting landscapes.
Let's stick with contesting in this thread.
Packet, and spotting networks et al are now inseparable from the
internet. There's nothing wrong with using the internet while
contesting. It's not illegal, it's not against the rules, but it is
different.
The use of a commercial communications utility to find and facilitate
QSOs in an amateur radio contest is far removed from using nothing but
amateur radio to do the same. Seems a pity this has to be repeated so
often.
By comparison, no one, anywhere, uses another form of propulsion in
sailboat racing and claims to be sailing.
Those sailboat racers must all be living in the past.
Don't they know that nothing stands still, and that new technology is
here to stay? Why, then, don't they use it? They're probably pining for
the days of yore :-)
Given that, however it happened, it's now perfectly acceptable for
contesters in assisted categories to use the internet, isn't it time we
started using terms such as "SO Connected" and "SO Unconnected" to better
describe the two categories?
73,
Paul EI5DI
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