So how do you handle contests with Serial numbers...........
Yeah we loved to get on 75m SSB from this area to see just how badly we
got beat in DX contests.
Every thing I see is you are afraid of something that might happen to
you. No care at all about the big picture. We are all getting older
and who cares about anyone else.
This is kind of like expecting scoring changes with ARRL or CQ that
actually might allow competitors from all over the country to have an
equal shot at winning.
Got it.
Mike W0MU
On 3/25/2015 2:28 PM, Dave Mueller wrote:
As a serious SOAB competitor, I don't want to see how my competition
is doing. I always want to think that I am on the verge of losing, so
I don't slack on the 2nd radio and keep pushing to do the best that I
can until the end of the contest. With visibility of how my
competition is doing, I could see myself slacking off or take off time
for a nap should I know that I am trouncing my competition, or
possibly quit altogether if I know that I am the one being trounced.
It's simple human nature.
As a serious SOAB competitor, I don't want to share my score with my
competition because I don't want to give them any sort of free
advantage. I don't want them to see that they are losing to me by a
small amount, and work harder to catch up and pass me. I don't want
them to see that in the last 20 minutes, I worked a bunch of new
multipliers or had a big jump in score, possibly letting them in an
opening that they otherwise would have missed.
As a several-time member of the K3LR M/M team, one of the most
memorable moments of the entire contest actually occurs after 2359Z
Sunday, when Tim, Frank, and the other M/M competition gets on 75m to
exchange scores. Until this moment we have no idea of how our
competition did. Everyone huddles around the speaker with pads and
pencils, to write down the summary and see how they stacked up to
their band competition at other stations. Sometimes there is
exhilaration when we learn that our claimed score was higher. Other
times, there is disappointment. Either way, that moment is very
special and memorable to all of the K3LR team mates and likely for the
guys at W3LPL, WE3C, etc as well. By sharing scores during the
contest, this special moment would not exist. By sharing scores during
the contest, you can find yourself bummed out for the entire 48 hours
because you are aware that your competition has some sort of
propagation advantage and there is nothing you can do to catch up
which frequently happens in M/M situations.
WRTC is different - the scores are posted online but none of my
competitors have access to the data so I am OK with that.
Granted, this is just more more opinion, but I hope to explain why I
am not likely to ever shares online, unless required to do so. I know
that others operate with a different mind set, but it doesn't work for
me. It is a little frustrating to see a movement to try pressuring
guys to participate in something that they'd rather not do, for the
enjoyment of others.
73, Dave N2NL
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