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Re: [CQ-Contest] You gotta let me know, should M/M Distributed stay or g

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] You gotta let me know, should M/M Distributed stay or go.
From: K8MR via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Reply-to: jimk8mr@aol.com
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2021 15:00:17 +0000 (UTC)
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The M/M D offers interesting challenges, technical and organizational, to which 
the various groups responded very well.
Does it make things better for the rest of us? I doubt it.
What we need are lots of stations to work. Once you're worked WW1X six times 
(i.e. on six bands, as I did as NO8DX). they're just taking up spectrum. OK, 
maybe they can serve a useful function as beacons CQing on a dead band. But 
it's still better to have three or six or more callsigns active, giving the 
rest of us more potential QSOs. 
I think the useful function of providing top notch remote operation 
availability, in particular to the youth crowd, is a fine contribution. But 
that can be done with traditional single site multi-op efforts. I don't see 
where the distributed feature adds much.
It's not clear from the 3830 writeup, but did they flip around stations on the 
same band? Propagation from Georgia can be a lot different from propagation in 
Maine, giving options not available to normal operations, multiop or not.

73  -  Jim   K8MR






-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Bloom <sbloom@acsalaska.net>
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Sent: Wed, Jun 2, 2021 3:05 am
Subject: [CQ-Contest] You gotta let me know, should M/M Distributed stay or go.

We're now a few days past what is likely the last COVID affected contest.  What 
do y'all think should or will happen with M/M Distributed.  Designated as a one 
time COVID exception, I can see this as the major confrontation between the pro 
and anti RHR camps.  Thoughts?73Steve KL7SB 

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