Money talks, see full page 8 add in recent QST mags. K2UF
-----Original Message----- From: Topband [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Blaschke, w5un Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 4:26 PM To: Eddy Swynar; [email protected] 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 > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5751 / Virus Database: 4299/9178 - Release Date: 02/25/15 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.5736 / Virus Database: 4299/9172 - Release Date: 02/24/15 _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
