Dear Gentlemen,
you started a HIGHLY INTERESTING discussion about the 160m contest!!!
I will assure you this situation will become even much worse in the near
future if you guys
dont protest against it. QSOs via internet MUST be forbidden for contests and
diplomas.
I am coming out of the 2m EME (moonbounce) scene and there we have already
this
horror scenario. Since the digital modes were invented almost all QSOs are
done via internet.
Even expeditions are found during the entire period on chat-rooms and
exchanging QSO information during a contact.
Even the ARRL EME contest rules were changed for a so-called assissted
category!!!
If you want to have a look on a EME chatroom then I highly recommend
to go to : www.chris.org/cgi-bin/jt65emeA
On this chatroom almost all the ARRL (2m) EME Contest took place last autumn.
What many people think about internet contesting you may find on:
www.arrl.org/contests/soapbox/?con_id=146
Go there and read the comment of a very successful contester, IK1UWL!
He writes: Calling without selfspots is useless, so we did selfspots every 5
minutes...
Gentlemen, its on YOU if you want to rescue YOUR band (160m) from the same
situation
like we have now with 2m (higher QRGs to follow?) or not.
If you dont bring contest-organizers to a point to forbid such chat-room
practises during a contest and if you dont bring DXCC commitee to a decision to
count chat-room QSOs
for DXCC then you have to live in the same situation like we have now on 2m
EME.
I am holder of DXCC #10 on 2m and worked WAS on 2m. It took me about 25 years
and
I am proud about it. But now its easy to work 2m DXCC in a very short time
with all
the chat-rooms and a software which is very doubtful.
Unfortunately my protests at NC1L seem to be as useless as calling CQ on EME
digital mode without selfspots...
A very nice summary of the new digital EME era you find at:
www.blog.sm2cew.com
Gentlemen, its on you if you want to rescue your favourite band (160m). With
a handful
of "old fashioned EME OPs" those use good old CW it was not possible.
Perhaps you 160m freaks are a bigger majority and will get a move...
vy 73 de DL5MAE Wolfgang
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