There has to be room in contesting, and in the results, for everyone; from the
big super stations with dedicated fibre-to-the-home to the gal who has to
manually tune the tank circuit of her T4XC on band changes to the guy who
trudges through snow to fire up his solar-powered mountaintop QRP station.
I don’t believe not having a data line between rig and computer (to enter
frequency data) means an operator deserves to be a checklog only, nor does it
make sense to preclude those who, for a variety of sound technical reasons as
outlined by K9YC, do not have Internet — or at least reliable service — at the
shack.
These operators may not all be at the top of the results, but it doesn’t mean
they can’t be invited to the party.
After all, if it wasn’t for the thousands of little guys who don’t make Top 10,
just who would the Top 10 stations work? Each other?
73, kelly, ve4xt
> On Mar 31, 2017, at 6:43 AM, john@kk9a.com wrote:
>
> I think it is poor assumption to say that we are all connected to the
> internet. There are contest stations that do not even have a bathroom. My
> P40A station had no internet, why should this be a requirement for
> operating a contest?
>
> John KK9A
>
>
> To: Contest Internet <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] mea culpa
> From: Martin Pelt <n4uu73@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 07:38:12 -0400
>
>
>
> I also think that next big step would be real time log checking. We are all
> hooked to the internet why not ?
>
> Of course my suggestions require more hardware and manpower and all of this
> cost money. I will have supported the WRTC and will be sending a check to
> the WWROF. I encourage all of you that have the resources and passion for
> the sport to do likewise.
>
> At this point I will crawl back into my hole. Hopefully I will have the
> common sense to remain there.
>
> 73, Martin N4UU
>
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