LF: WSPR - a philosophical question.

[Andy Talbot <andy.g4jnt@googlemail.com>]

Mostly in Jest, but food for thought...

The WSPR database with its complete record of who has heard whom with
date, time , frequency, locator, report and stated Tx power opens up
an interesting philosophical concept.

If the database records that A has heard B, and B has heard A, then
the stations have exchanged reports, location and a piece of unique
information.   By any reckoning this constitutes a QSO - even for
contest purposes.   So now, I don't have to sit in front of a rig
waffling or tapping,  or even be in the shack, or even awake, to have
a valid QSO.   I can be on continuously, 24/7/52.14775  to take
advantage of lifts and anti-social-hours propagation.

Lets do this on all the bands!  Choose a modulation type matched to
the RF medium and bandwidth, and just get on with it.
Throw away those microphones, and definitely those funny tappy 19th
centuary things.

There is one downside: a permanant internet connection to upload
real-time reports.   BUT this could even herald a rebirth for packet
radio if local amateurs could set up simple forwarding nodes to
suitable internet connections?


Andy  G4JNT
www.g4jnt.com