After someone else finds the DX, spots him on the Cluster, the Cluster and loggng software filter your needs, plug the frequency(ies) into your radio, rings an alarm to alert you from your spot in front of the Boob tube, turns your rotor for you (you don't even need know where the DX is!), then do you want me to "standby" for you too, while you push the button on your DVK repeatedly, because I've already worked it on another band? I hear welfare checks are direct deposit now. Technology is simply wonderful. Hey, I hear the new DDXCC award is going to be availble in a special "level 2" editon featuring an attractive clear, hollow, plastic tube. ARRL spokesman Marrti Lame, OH2BS (one dit short of a new "entity") said, "We feel the 3 distnctive features of the award-- transparent, hollow, and plastic-- eloquently symbolize the level of operator invovlement in our new program. The tube will be artfully engraved with a Radio Shack soldering iron with the station's callsign and operator's name ("WA9PIE, operator--Pentium III", for example). Cost of the award is pending, but we anticipate that for an additional "donation" to the ARRL's lobbying fund the entity total can be reduced to modest and easily achieved 50."
Hell, no, I don't think we should go back to washing our clothes on a rock. As a matter of fact , I think we oughta let people who run marathons ride motorcycles. After all, we have the technology. And football players should take steriods. And folks who play chess should be able to consult a computer before making a move. The point isn't anti-technology. If I were anti-tech, I wouldn't be participating in an online forum. The point is: High jumping isn't high jumping if you just run under the bar.