The casual op clicked the spot, logged the contact and moved
on..................
Mike W0MU
On 6/24/2014 12:37 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
It's odd how some people try to turn every debate into an issue of
instant gratification. It's the same tactic used by others who
generalize about politics, or generations, or gender, or religion, or
whatever. And yes, I'm aware of the irony inherent in my own
generalization(s) here.
It seems to me that the CQWW contest sponsors might simply be trying
to make the event more attractive to casual participants in order to
generate more activity for EVERYONE, including those of us (myself
included) who prefer to run a frequency 98% of the time.
I like analogies. I tend to avoid events like concerts and movies
where I have to wait in line an excessive amount of time because the
venue wasn't designed to meet the demand. I virtually boycott stores
that understaff the checkout lane because they weren't willing to
treat my wait time as a service issue. I used to spend a lot of
money to periodically upgrade my computer with faster CPU/RAM/GPU so
that I wouldn't have to wait so long to run calculation-intensive
applications like EXCEL, VOACAP, or video games (mine is now fast
enough for anything I care to run).
The only people who don't get irritated by excessive and needless wait
times in this life are those who have absolutely nothing better to do,
or are already dead. (oops, another generalization)
It's boring to sit on a frequency listening to a string of QSOs being
made by other contesters who got the callsign from a spot or by DX'ers
who aren't really in the contest and couldn't care less how long it
takes to snag a rare one. It's frustrating having to wait for the
other guy to simply let everyone know who he is. It's irritating
knowing that the other guy is soliciting a contact from you while
purposely impacting your rate in order to enhance his. If it's
boring, frustrating, irritating it isn't going to appeal to a casual
contester ... those folks that the rest of us keep trying to entice
into the game by telling them that it's fun and exciting. The great
majority of contest participants are S&P'ers, and the greater the run
rate the greater the percentage of them. A run rate of 100 QSOs/hr
means that 99% of the participants are S&P'ers! It seems almost
elitist to think that the rules should cater to the guy who wants to
just sit there and run at the expense of majority who call him.
And how we went from reducing wait time to everyone getting a trophy
is totally beyond me. See non sequitur ...
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur_%28logic%29>
Dave AB7E
On 6/24/2014 7:47 AM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
The aim is gain two way contacts? I thought it was to work as many
people as possible and as many mults. Pileup control is done by
giving callsigns. So in an effort to placate the I NEED IT NOW
society a rules change has been made to remove a viable strategy from
a run station so that S&P stations can get a call or verify a call
faster.
The next rule change we need is that everyone gets a shiny trophy and
we have no winners and losers..................
Mike W0MU
On 6/23/2014 10:25 PM, Christian Schneider wrote:
AF6O wrote:
>Once you try to force a competitor to adopt a strategy to boost his
competitors score it ceases to be a contest.
With the aim of the contest being to gain as much TWO-WAY-contacts,
the other half of a qso seems to be such an essential part(ner) of
the action that the decision does not seem to be unwise. Oh, and it
is simply fair to take care of that point. But YMMV
Chris DL8MBS
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