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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

45th ed. A. Volta Contest MO plaque IQ1RY



Subject: [RTTY] 45th ed. A. Volta Contest MO plaque IQ1RY
From: Salvatore Irato 
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 13:25:34 +0200


The recent happenings have cluttered my desk a little bit. I was forgetting a serious thing that I would like to share with you all, as several of you where there on air: I know! All my personal thanks and also thanks from the whole IQ1RY team to the A. Volta DX Committee. We have just received the plaque as IQ1RY is the winner in the MO class of the 45th edition of the A. Volta RTTY Contest for the year 2011. Many thanks to the group of the organizers and particularly to I2DMI and IK2LOL. Think about: The 2011 of the Volta contest was played in between May 14th and 15th; The log deadline was on June 30th; Almost 15-18 days after the deadline the results were published on the Volta Contest web; On 29th of July I have had the plaque on hands, made it, shipped it to ours address and moved it to the club facilities. Now it’s standing near the 2010 plaque inside the ARI Bra club premises! What’s better? Nothing, may I say. Now let me say some TU as I have to do. TU I2DMI, from the whole IQ1RY team and particularly from IK1HXN, Mario, and myself. TU also to all of you that with yours time and patience, together with us, made this result, for the second year, possible and enjoyed with us the whole 45th ed. Volta Contest. CU all next year!. Not to forget also the N1MM team of developers that with passion and knowledge made a so big numbers crunching possible in a handful of days. Tu John, K3CT, your personal effort was invaluable. 73 de iw1ayd Salvo _______________________________________________ RTTY mailing list RTTY@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/rtty

Digital DXCC or ARRL Board of Directors, respectfully: have my strong disagreement



Subject: [RTTY] Digital DXCC or ARRL Board of Directors, respectfully: have my strong disagreement
From: iw1ayd 
Reply-to:
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:32:16 +0200
List-post:
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





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