AB7E offers a definition of "bigotry" which he then demonstrates applies
to himself - by engaging in an ad hominem attack.
I care about what amateur radio is evolving into, and suggested, as an
example, the inexorable progress of data modes into unattended,
fully-automated data processing over RF. Here's an example from March
this year - I expect the technology has moved on (become even better)
since then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50vwtGnmyd4
What would we call the "driver" of a self-driving car? A passenger.
What would we call the "operator" of an automated data QSO? Absent.
With regard to the fact that I don't use data modes, we all know "You
don't have to be an actor to be a critic". In my innocence (and
bigotry, apparently) I always thought that amateur radio QSOs happened
between people, not machines. After all, it is HOW we choose to
communicate with one another that defines us as radio amateurs. It
seems that AB7E doesn't agree.
73,
Paul EI5DI
On 25/10/2018 09:09, David Gilbert wrote:
What do you care what the data modes are evolving into if you don't
use them (even RTTY) and they don't affect the CW and SSB contests
that you do use?
I don't get it. Amateur radio is thankfully a lot broader than your
definition of it, and for the most part manages to keep the various
modes segregated enough to satisfy everyone. It makes zero sense to
bitch about what other people do if they aren't negatively affecting
you. That doesn't make you old, or outdated ... it makes you a bigot.
"Bigot: A /bigot/ is a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any
opinions differing from their own."
Dave AB7E
On 10/23/2018 1:50 PM, Paul O'Kane wrote:
As we move ever closer to fully-automated data modes, the divide
between data and
non-data modes gets bigger. When and if the operator becomes
incidental, what will
be the point of such contest QSOs - other than bragging that my
software is smarter
than yours?
WSJT-X may be the "flavour of the month" now - but, next month, or
certainly next
year, something "better" will turn up - as the potential for "new and
improved" data
modes is limitless. Some see this as progress in amateur radio and
contesting - I see
it as progress in automated two-way data processing over RF.
It seems to me that any mode that is not and can not be decoded by
individual
contesters (people) in real-time does not truly represent amateur
radio. But what
would I know, being just an old-fashioned (outdated?) contester who
keeps to
phone and CW :-)
Some will argue that we have to keep up, we can't stop progress, and
that amateur
radio and contesting are evolving. I say that data modes are
evolving into something
else entirely.
73,
Paul EI5DI
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