I just got up from my nap to see the cognitive contesting business and I will admit that something that complex offers more than a few interesting aspects but you've not considered the *missing link*! I see precious few cognitive operators and an amazing number of ideas that I don't understand. How, for example, can you claim to have an emergency communications system when no one has ever talked to any of the good folks who are going to be served? Or what can anyone be thinking of when linking systems that are inherently limited as far as communications volume is concerned thus further choking a system that is already limited? Yet, everywhere I turn this is the amateur radio *norm.* If you aren't careful people will start passing us off as nothing but another elite group. Of course we are but I know my grandmother wouldn't approve of saying it!
73 Lee K9WRU ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Brickle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Robert Dennison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <flexradio@flex-radio.biz> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 3:34 PM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] New Model from FlexRadio? > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Robert Dennison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've been in a few sports (like fencing) where automation basically > > ruined what was a very interesting activity... > > > Oh, well, you can be sure there will be contesting. It's like, around the > world, give a few kids a few square meters of open ground and something to > kick, and there *will* be soccer. > > However, with amateur radio contesting, the prospects especially for > technological enhancements are very enticing. For example, with > authenticated logging of location (GPS) and instantaneous power, the idea > of weighted distance scoring (distance between stations divided by power in > watts) is not only practical but leads to a very interesting set of > strategic challenges, especially if you can tailor power to optimize score > for a given QSO. Now, suppose all the stations had digital subcarriers that > sent their own values (coordinates, power) with each transmission. On six > meters, say, you have some entertaining decisions to make over what stations > to go after, in what order, and at what power, knowing full well that the > openings are of very limited duration... > > Of course the thing that would ensure the survival of amateur contesting > into perpetuity would be open wagering, but *that* would never happen, would > it? > > 73 > Frank > AB2KT > > > -- > Travelling by airplane in the US is nothing more than mass training of > Americans to the requirements of the coming police state. The whole point is > to make you learn to acquiesce without question, en masse, to completely > absurd directives by dull functionaries wearing uniforms. -- Digby > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ > > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
