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Re: [CQ-Contest] Remote contest operation

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Remote contest operation
From: David Gilbert <xdavid@cis-broadband.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:29:25 -0700
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Contesting is merely an activity, Paul, and it hasn't been pure operator-to-operator for decades. Not with Super Check partial, not with self-completing log entries, not with memory keyers, and not with Call History files generated by somebody else. It is whatever the contest sponsor declares it to be, period. If you think some aspect of the terminology has lost its purity, fine ... but that's all it is. Evolution is not always subversion ... sometimes it's just different. Voice your displeasure all you want, but that doesn't mean it represents some sort of moral decay worthy of despair.

Dave   AB7E




On 4/11/2013 11:58 AM, Paul O'Kane wrote:

Over the last few days, this thread has included
the terms listed below.

I don't recognise amateur radio contesting in
any of them.  Most are technical terms specific
to the internet, a public communications utility.
Whatever relevance the internet has to contesting
in general, in remote contest operation it serves
only to replace or displace amateur-band RF
between contesters.

Those who choose, or are obliged, to get on the
internet before they get on the air are doing
something fundamentally different from the rest
of us.  We're all entitled to do what we please,
but we're not entitled to do what we please and
call it what we please.  Internet-dependent
contesting is not the same as amateur-band-RF-
all-the-way contesting, even when the operators
at the far end can't tell the difference and
when contest sponsors ignore the difference.

Read, and despair :-)

  VPN
  packet-loss
  delay-spikes
  traffic prioritisation
  network path
  audio-streaming
  intermediate server
  restrictive ISPs
  peer-to-peer
  client download
  participating client
  firewall
  port restrictions
  server and client
  public IP
  VPS
  encrypted traffic
  packet inspection
  throttling
  dropped packets
  latency issues
  56mb download speeds
  routing
  incoming packets
  ADSL
  fail over to 3G
  Skype
  cyberworld
  jitter
  realtime audio over UDP
  4G LTE connection
  traffic shaping issues
  point-to-point microwave
  local service provider

73,
Paul EI5DI





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