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Re: Topband: Brave New World

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Subject: Re: Topband: Brave New World
From: Steve London <n2icarrl@gmail.com>
Reply-to: n2ic@arrl.net
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 15:05:29 -0700
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Here we go again with this remote discussion.

It's like the movie Groundhog Day.

Can we QRX this discussion, for, say, 6 months before rehashing the same tired arguments ?

73,
Steve, N2IC

On 02/25/2015 02:54 PM, Joe K2UF wrote:
Money talks, see full page 8 add in recent QST mags.

K2UF

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From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Dave
Blaschke, w5un
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 4:26 PM
To: Eddy Swynar; topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Brave New World

Notice how ARRL is endorsing all of this. read that first paragraph,
especially: "The scattered K3TN team worked *via the Internet *through
the station of Jack Hammett, K4VV". I thought our hobby was about radio,
not internet.

On 2/25/2015 9:05 PM, Eddy Swynar wrote:
Hi Guys,

I am really & truly surprised that nobody here has raised so much as even
an eyebrow at this story:


http://www.arrl.org/news/no-one-in-the-shack-as-station-logs-4200-contacts-i
n-arrl-dx-cw-contest

The whole notion---to me, at any rate---compromises the very essence & the
"...joie de vivre!" of operating on 160-meters, don't you think...? And to
imagine that one of the "perpetrators" in all this is actually exuberant
about his accomplishment...

"...'No one was in the K4VV shack for the entire contest!' said Mike L*,
W0**, who took part in the contest via K4** from his own shack in
Virginia..."

This too is "progress"...? Oh well, I guess maybe it is. Time marches on,
things evolve, things "de-evolve," & nothing stays quite the same.

~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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