Hi Ken:
Is there a SINGLE contest with a rule against "Cheerleading" spots?
I can't think of one offhand. Also, a lot of the spotting may be
being done by casual participants who don't care much about
the competition.
73,
Mark
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 08:58:07AM -0700, Mike Fatchett wrote:
>
> > Self spotting is a problem. If your buddy wants to spend all contest
> > chasing you around the bands and spotting you so be it. I bet it doesn't
> > happen that much.
>
> I believe it happens _a lot_ in the larger contest clubs. Check out this
> example from 2002:
>
> http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2002-03/msg00080.html
>
> This happened more-or-less spontaneously - the operator of ZF2MM did not
> specifically ask his contest club buddies to spot him while he was in
> the Cayman Islands, but some of his contest club buddies spotted him 30
> or more times while spotting basically nobody else in the contest - and
> collectively made sure that he was spotted every five minutes or so for
> long stretches of time.
>
> Even though it wasn't planned in advance, was it fair to ZF2MM's competition
> that ZF2MM had what amounted to an entire team of spotters promoting his
> contest effort all weekend long on the cluster network?
>
> Is there a lot of similar behavior going on at a not-quite-this-obvious
> level? Sure. Is there a lot of similar behavior going on where the
> spotters go to some trouble to hide their own identities? I would bet on
> that, too.
>
> Cheerleaders on packet are a significant problem.
>
>
> Perhaps one way to solve the problem, since a lot of it can be traced
> to Club Competition, or misplaced pride in one's contest club, is to
> have contest sponsors identify the cheerleaders and ban them from entering
> contest scores for some period of time after their infraction (12 months?
> Maybe with one warning? Maybe publish the calls of those caught doing it?)
> This wouldn't stop all cheerleaders, but certainly for those motivated
> by improving their club's score, this would dissuade the behaviour.
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
> kenharker@kenharker.com
> http://www.kenharker.com/
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