Just let me register my agreement with Glenn and Cornelius. What needs to
happen is for there to be a consensus about what elements constitute the
essentials of the sport of amateur radio contesting - certainly, sole use
of amateur radio as the communications medium and sole use of human brain
power for decoding are two good places to start.
At the risk of belaboring the analogy one more time, it's a lot like
sailboat racing. Nobody argues that you can get from point A to point B a
lot faster, but the essential component of the sport is that the wind, and
only the wind, provides propulsion. It's not that sailboat racers can't
apply other technologies, but that they choose not to, because it would not
be the same sport.
73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr@contesting.com
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