[Meteor-Scatter] G0NFA IO91 Perseids Report

[Hervé BIRAUD]

> This has been going on for years before the internet it was the VHF net on
> 20mtrs.


Maybe, Tony, but the "problem" is that today everybody can work MS,
regardless of the basic informations on that mode ...

By the past, you had to be QRV 20m, you had to know about the showers
(who speaks about radiants or ZHR today !), you had to modify tape
recorders,
see how your FT221 or IC202 would accept 1000 lpm, build a high
speed memory keyer, learn CW and the procedure etc ... One would just not
imagine having done all that job for - at last - a +/- "cheated" QSO.

As a "lot" does not make the "best", you now find people, simply ignoring
the procedures, just playing WSJT as their sons play MARIO on a
Nintendo board !

Jo K1JT has done an excellent technical/radio job, but  it has dramatic
consequences on the MS activity : Internet (or so) helped QSOs on .370 and
a radio desert on both .100 and .200 ! Of course, WSJT is the easiest
and most "productive" way to complete a MS QSOs. You can go where
the human ear can't go, at speeds we would never have imagined just
5 years ago. But, where is the difficulty (except for K1JT, the code
writter) ? What kind of  specific knowledge is required ? Where is the
pleasure ?
Am I too old (but just 40 ...) ?

73
Herve F5HRY

WSJT : "my computer thanks your computer for this friendly QSO"