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THE 2005 ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CW CONTEST FIVE YEARS INTO THE FIRST DECADE
OF THE 21ST CENTURY, WE HAVE ENTERED THE GOLDEN AGE OF COMPUTERIZED
CONTESTING.  COMPUTERS AFFECT OPERATIONS THEMSELVES, THE SOCIAL STRATA OF
THE CONTEST COMMUNITY, LOGGING, DUPING, MULTIPLIER TABULATING EVERY
POSSIBLE ASPECT OF RADIO CONTESTING IS IMPACTED BY COMPUTERS AND BY
EXTENSION, THE INTERNET.  IN THE PRE INTERNET AGE, LEW GORDON, K4VX, RAN A
SERIES OF NOW FAMOUS CLASSIFIED ADS IN THE BACK PAGES OF QST LOOKING FOR
RAW CONTEST OPERATORS TO COME FILL CHAIRS AT HIS MISSOURI QTH.  TODAYS
CONTEST OPERATOR ADS ARE FOUND ON THE INTERNET RENT A DX QTH.  OPS NEEDED
FOR K1TTT MULTI.  RAW SCORE REPORTING USED TO BE LISTS OF STATIONS CALLING
IN ON 3830 KHZ FOLLOWED BY COMPILATIONS PUBLISHED IN NATIONAL CONTEST
JOURNAL.  NOW CLAIMED SCORE REPORTING BEGINS ON THE INTERNET WITH THE END
OF THE CONTEST AND CONTINUES FOR DAYS AFTERWARD AND IS ARCHIVED
PERMANENTLY.  THE INTERNET PROVIDES A NEAR REAL TIME COMMUNITY
CONVERSATION.  GONE ARE THE DAYS OF A VOICE CALLING OUT MULTIPLIERS ON 147
MHZ SIMPLEX 20 METERS, 20 METERS, KILO HOTEL 6 ITALY JAPAN, 14012 FROM N2AA
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IK8BQE/341 IK8HJC/336 IK8HJM/339 IN3XAI/342 IT9ZGY/370 IV3TQE/343
JA0UUA/339 JA1BN/363 JA1DJO/337 JA1DOF/340 JA1FHK/351 JA1KQX/342 JA1MOH/345
JA1SHE/339 JA1WSX/351 JA1WTI/353 JA2DLM/345 JA2QCX/343 JA3CMD/349 JA3GM/351
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