On Feb 21, 2008, at 10:44 PM, Paul J. Piercey wrote:
> Unfortunately, the focus seems to be on score and I feel that doing
> anything
> that requires the operator to think beyond a simple, short exchange
> will be
> met with a huge opposition. I think it would make us better
> operators to
> have to copy serials or random numbers which have been generated by
> the log
> rather than "ENN E" or some such simple string but that is
> obviously not the
> current point of contesting.
Then the contesters need to rethink their priorities. Contesting is
an exercise to improve operators skills, to become better operators.
It is not an end in itself, (heresy alert!) despite how much fun it
is. Serials are the only way to go IMO.
-73 de Mike N3LI -
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