[Moon] [Moon-net] Will things ever change? Pls clarify!

[Giorgio Marchi]

Hi Bodo, compliments for the choice of examples. I completely agree with you 
that progress from spark transmitters includes present day digital modes and 
loggers. Eme started with cw, and it was a very difficult task both to find 
and to decode signals. Technically it is still a very exacting task, an eme 
capable station is not something you just buy commercially. But we can now 
decode a lot more stations, and a lot of new emers have joined the ranks. So 
I have a great respect for the cw old-timers, but do not wish to live in the 
past, digital eme is the new frontier. And since a qso is a contact in 
which, by radio means, one exchanges calls and reports, the fact that you 
prearrange qrg and also the fact that you know in advance which calls should 
appear on the screen, does NOT invalidate the qso conducted through the 
moon. I imagine that you also have troubled with visual identification of 
feeble traces and used all the possible tricks to force a decode. Also this 
is made with your brain, as cw lovers like to underline for their case. I 
have worked random in some contests, and I just made less qsos than when I 
operated assisted. They are just two different approaches, which both lead 
to valid qsos.