--- "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com> wrote:
> I have been trying to understand why a group as seemingly competitive as
> contesters would even think of spotting stuff for their rivals to benefit
> from. They spend small (or large) fortunes setting up hugely elaborate
> stations in order to beat "the other guy" and then turn around and tell "the
> other guy" where the points are.
We are not just competing "mano a mano", but also as part of contest clubs, and
spots benefit all the club members.
I remember the days when links between certain packet networks (like YCCC and
FRC) were taken down just before a world-wide DX contest started, then restored
later. Ah, the good old paranoid days.
73 - Jim AD1C
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Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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