[Moon] [Moon-net] Breaking a vicious circle

[SV3AAF Petros]

Was this email for another reflector? Somebody explain please!

Is this an EME contest we are talking about or something else?

Radio Amateurs (and not only amateurs) work EME because it is about:
- Technical innovations
- Operating skills development.
- Analysing problems and inventing ways to overcome obstacles
- Hard work for every single achievement

And finally:
EME is not a consumer good like a detergent for example.
If a person needs to find one such good can go to the super market. It can be cheap as well.

Best Regards, 73,
Petros

From:    "Giorgio Marchi" <marchi.g at libero.it>
To:    "Moon-net" <moon-net at list-serv.davidv.net>
Date:    Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:28:51 +0100
Subject:    [Moon-net] Breaking a vicious circle
 Hi all,
the first leg of the ARRL EME Contest 2007 was very agreable, with lots of stations and activity, better than the last ones. With the battle 
over I have tried to analyse the contest and make comparisons between present and past rules. 
I must start thanking the people in ARRL for admitting analog and digital modes in the same contest and admitting, at least partly, the use of "self spotting". At the present moment there is a very limited number of stations capable to visualize the activity on a large bandwidth. This is not only technically complex but also rather expensive, and its main usefulness is in contests, normal activity is conducted agreably and efficiently with the help of loggers, where you can add a lot of information to the basic ones exchanged via EME and get a human touch. 
If everybody had crossed yagis, WSE hardware, one pc with Linux and Linrad and a second pc with MAP65, everybody would be waiting for 
activity, which would be lacking or meagre. No cqs. Admitting self spotting entails more activity which benefits also the top guns who can operate unassisted. 
And self spotting is a great benefit also for small stations. I worked a lot of very small stations thanks to self spotting, which I would probably 
not have detected with S&P, same for them. And the number of stations calling CQ was much bigger with respect to contests which do not 
allow self spotting, this increased very much the number of qsos possible and the number of participants who found satisfaction in operating 
this weekend.
So I hope that self spotting will return in full in future rules, without separation between assisted and unassisted; amusement and participation 
will benefit from this. And that the very narrowband modes like JT2 and JT4 develop into modes comparable in sensitivity to JT65. With these and a single channel MAP65 there would be a poor man's alternative. Please Joe, dont give up !
73 to all from Gio IK1UWL
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