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i got my no-code tech license in 1993... i felt like i was cheating a little, would i ever be able to learn morse like the real hams that could build their own amps and pass the advanced test... everything they did happened in amazing ways over the air...
then a few weeks ago i was listening to an elmer on dmr who got his license in the 70s and had just gotten in to dmr, he was amazed by it and said that if they had dmr in the 70s he probably wouldn't have gone past novice... what??
his logic was simply that all the DX he did over the last many decades can be accomplished from a simple HT and a hotspot now.
i heard this... and i guess he's right... yes, you could talk to people across the world with dmr... but is it the same?
so i've been logging a lot of FT8 lately, having some issues getting in to parts of asia and africa, tracking my QRZ Awards just to keep an eye on what i've accomplished, and realizing that i'm not getting some places... and thought... i could use dmr to reach out to those place and log a phone contact...
but is it a phone contact or a data contact or a digital contact? what applies to C4FM or DStar? and... wait, would that be UHF DX?
i'm not trying to start an argument here, and i'm sure this topic easily could... but i want to keep the best logs, and i'd like to be as true to radio as possible with them. i realize that times change and with times technology, there was an era when tuners and ssb were crazy new technology... but... they were still radio and only radio.
so... what's best practices on logging DMR contacts?
thanks & 73,
Richard
N0TZC
then a few weeks ago i was listening to an elmer on dmr who got his license in the 70s and had just gotten in to dmr, he was amazed by it and said that if they had dmr in the 70s he probably wouldn't have gone past novice... what??
his logic was simply that all the DX he did over the last many decades can be accomplished from a simple HT and a hotspot now.
i heard this... and i guess he's right... yes, you could talk to people across the world with dmr... but is it the same?
so i've been logging a lot of FT8 lately, having some issues getting in to parts of asia and africa, tracking my QRZ Awards just to keep an eye on what i've accomplished, and realizing that i'm not getting some places... and thought... i could use dmr to reach out to those place and log a phone contact...
but is it a phone contact or a data contact or a digital contact? what applies to C4FM or DStar? and... wait, would that be UHF DX?
i'm not trying to start an argument here, and i'm sure this topic easily could... but i want to keep the best logs, and i'd like to be as true to radio as possible with them. i realize that times change and with times technology, there was an era when tuners and ssb were crazy new technology... but... they were still radio and only radio.
so... what's best practices on logging DMR contacts?
thanks & 73,
Richard
N0TZC