| Subject: | [RTTY] Digital DXCC or ARRL Board of Directors, respectfully: have my strong disagreement |
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| From: | iw1ayd |
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| Date: | Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:32:16 +0200 |
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Hi to all. Just to read the doc abou and not my personal opinion go there: http://www.arrl.org/files/file/About%20ARRL/Board%20Meetings/2011%20Second%20MeetingMinutes%281%29.pdf ( Take care of the URL line fragmenting and about the dead space representation as %20 ) Abstract from "Minutes of the 2011 Second Meeting - ARRL Board of Directors - July 15-16. 2011" 29. On motion of Mr. Fenstermaker, seconded by Mr. Edgar, the following resolution was ADOPTED: WHEREAS the DX Advisory Committee (DXAC) was charged to investigate many aspects of the ARRL DX program; and WHEREAS Amateur Radio technology has advanced to include many variations of digital communication; and WHEREAS the DXAC has recommended changing the DXCC Award category from RTTY to Digital or RTTY/Digital or Digital Mixed; and WHEREAS the Programs & Services Committee (PSC) deliberated this change and, along with ARRL staff believe the best revised name for this award is Digital DXCC, and WHEREAS, the ARRL thanks the DXAC for its work on this name change; Therefore, it is RESOLVED that the ARRL Board accepts the recommendation of the PSC to change the title of the RTTY DXCC Award to the DIGITAL DXCC Award. What to say, there are no reasons nor facts by any means about the decision taken inside that document, as seen here in the abstract. The phrase " WHEREAS Amateur Radio technology has advanced to include many variations of digital communication ...", tells by itself all. Technology have changed a lot since the radio was only used for CW, sparking or funk (DL), in the meantime, since than and until quite now, there weren't changes in the radio technologies, accordingly to this 2011 sentence: unbelievable. So, RTTY was RTTY, Phone was Phone and CW was CW. Now, 2011, the silliest and subtle discovery that whatever is not Phone or CW must be called Digital, like several appliances we have on hands or at home. So CW, a digital mode by default and by any mean, will remain unDigital as Phone, they couldn't could not be assimilated. RTTY, that by itself haven't any remarkable nor visible soul as Phone o CW, instead will be fully assimilated. Yes like the Star Trek saga, "Any resistance will be futile ...". In the movie that was a nice characterization, now it is only an awful envision at best. Instead to clearly change anything, i.e. adding a Digital DXCC award - yes why not, now we are all assimilated as Digital Borg. Worst, leaving out more than half of the world that is already digital since than. The sacred soul of CW and its big weapons. Playing between presence or absence of a single signal and coding signs accordingly mean enough digital to my, any(?), eyes and my ears, but I would not start a religious discussion there. All the old DEC self instruction tapes have already made this point strong enough in the NRZ signals chapter, almost 35 years ago (just the clock/timing recovering may seems to gets out of the picture ... fuzzy or not fuzzy). Well done, another foot in the grave and nobody know how many of those we have to spare. Nemo propheta in patria. 73 de iw1ayd Salvo _______________________________________________ RTTY mailing list RTTY@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/rtty
