No Ward, you have taken that comment out of context.
My overall point was and is that the measures that are being discussed, and
sadly accepted by the majority with little or not real thought, are not
addressing the real issue.
The real issue remains, IMHO, that loss of respect of and trust in fellow
contesters.
We have gone, in the past 5 to 10 years especially, from the days when a
man's (or woman's) word that they followed the rules and competed honestly
and fairly, until & unless proven otherwise...
to now, where a contester must prove up front and on demand that he or she
is squeaky clean... and for that matter, the contest committees as well,
because (by implication) no one can be trusted.
Open logs clearly weren't enough, because now we have demands that the UBN
reports be made open to the view of anyone who wants them for any reason as
well. Even though, as Igor UA9CDC pointed out, with open logs available, it
ought to be child's play to recreate the UBN reports. So why the demand
that they be made public? To what purpose? Somehow that question isn't
even asked, we just see posts from people agreeing that it must be a good
idea...
So what now? Do you actually WANT to mandate that contest operators put
webcams in their shacks? Are we going to impose a dress code? Or penalize
someone for displaying a messy operating setup to the world?
I can't actually believe you took that comment this seriously. But then,
you did take it out of context.
73
-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Ward Silver
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 5:29 PM
To: CQ-Contest Reflector
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] KR2Q - RX1CQ
"Will we as contesters be required to put a webcam in our
shacks and expose ourselves to the world for 24 or 48 hours, to the whim of
any voyeur who seems to find some reason to watch me operate a radio in
shorts and a T-shirt?"
I thought exposing ourselves to the world for 24 or 48 hours to any radio
voyeur who seems to find some reason to call us on the radio was the entire
point of contesting in general. If privacy is one's goal, radiosport would
not be my first suggestion as a hobby.
73, Ward N0AX
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