[AMRadio] Cw and contests

[CL in NC]

In reference to the comments on computers, radios, and the internet in contest use, to me the answer is simple.  Amend the contest rules such that computers, and the internet are not allowed, or make a class of operation for traditional ham communication, i.e., use the receiver, tune around, make contacts.  I find the DXCC Honor Roll ( I am not a member) to be corrupted with those whose entire country count was achieved by watching spotter sites. At one time, there was a hunt club in the midwest, where a 'hunter' was on a platform, a buffalo was released into a large ring, and the 'hunter' shot his buffalo.  That is about how hamming in contests seem to me today, what exactly is the challenge?  Just my view, but then again, I'm now just an old ham fogy, not in touch with the modern world, who's thinking is outdated, and who should just go away. Technology has outpaced the hams need for knowledge, which advances something simple as putting a connector
 on a coax into the realm of 'too technical'.


Charlie, W4MEC in NC