I have found most people that are not in Ham Radio are very interested
and intrigued in contesting and that we fly to islands in the Caribbean
and setup field day style operations so we can talk to lots of people
around the world.
Most find this quite fascinating.
I would agree there is not much to watch in an rtty contest.
I think watching a SO2R CW or SSB op do his thing where the listener and
view can hear and see what is going on would be pretty wild.
If contesting were not interesting already it would have died long ago.
I just don't understand all the push back. Lets just shoot ourselves in
the foot. The negativity is real.
How about a user defined scoreboard for the NCCC , FRC, GMCC where you
can watch other club members. Mini contests within the contest for the
clubs. Who can post the best 12 hour score, best low power, newbie
class. Maybe your NA QP team is listed to you can see where you stand.
I could see this being a huge motivational tool. Damn I am 5 qsos
behind W0XX and 6 mults. I better push harder.
The possibilities are wide open unless you just want to continue to slam
the door on it.
Mike W0MU
On 3/26/2015 8:20 AM, Ward Silver wrote:
> Watching an actual operation to see the fun and actually operating
is going to do that.
Who among us has ever actually watched someone operating a radio contest?
/sarcasm_on
CW or RTTY contest:
[15 minutes of silence and keyboard clicking]
Dammit!
[more silence and clicking]
Phone contest:
Call sign five nine something [pause, click click] thanks your call sign
Call sign five nine something [pause, click click] thanks your call sign
Call sign five nine something [pause, click click] thanks your call sign
Dammit!
Call sign five nine something [pause, click click] thanks your call sign
/sarcasm_off
As a several-times WRTC referee, I can attest that without full
involvement in the action, it's not very much fun. Actually, the
better the competitor, the less there is to watch. It would be like
watching video from a GoPro camera mounted on a marathon runner - if
it's interesting, they're losing :-)
Seriously, the "metadata" is a required part of what would make
radiosport interesting, even to other hams. Radiosport is a sport
that happens in our *head* and not much else, physically. Where is
the beam pointed, how loud are signals, who are you going to pick out
of the pile, when are you going to drop your call in, who else was
calling that you beat to the DX, what's happening on the second radio,
think you can move that mult to 15, when is 40 going to open to Japan,
who's crowding in below you, etc etc etc.
This is why it's hard to explain to non-hams and even non-contesters
what the attraction is. Real-time score reporting is just a start -
you don't have to watch anybody else's score, of course, and the top
ops probably will never look at those web pages...which is fine.
Unless we are going to replace ourselves exclusively through
one-on-one mentoring, we should be thinking about how to make the
sport something others can experience to some degree as a spectator
and that means the whole sport and not just numbers or the back of our
heads.
73, Ward N0AX
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