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Re: [CQ-Contest] Keeping 'em honest

Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Keeping 'em honest
From: Steve Hanlon <asciibaron@verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 11:20:20 -0600 (CST)
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i miss the mark frequently.  ask my wife.

does this thread really need to continue?   the contest season is drawing to a 
close and we should return to our weekly RBN/Skimmer debates.

-Steve, WM3O

Dec 3, 2010 12:14:23 PM, xdavid@cis-broadband.com wrote:


No, Steve ... I think it is you that is missing the mark.  Art, by his 
own admission, didn't just submit a log without those contacts because 
he was afraid of getting dinged for a NIL ... he submitted a log without 
those contacts with the hope that the other guys would get dinged for a NIL.

Caution versus spite ...

Dave   AB7E



On 12/3/2010 9:14 AM, Steve Hanlon wrote:
> a slight modification of this will be for all PVRC stations to work as many 
> NCCC stations as possible in SS next year but to not log them.  a great 
> offense is a solid defense :)
>
> all joking aside, i think you have missed the mark here.  Art has no idea if 
> the station has him in the log or not.  we are supposed to be communicating 
> but unless the other station has confirmed that we have in fact communicated, 
> how do you know you have?  Art is not going to claim he as communicated if he 
> doesn't know that he has.  makes perfect sense to me.
>
> -Steve, WM3O
>
> Dec 3, 2010 08:51:45 AM, W5OV@W5OV.COM wrote:
>
> OK Art, so let me see if I understand you correctly...
>
> You're submitting your log, with some QSOS intentionally removed, because
> someone who did not respond how you wanted them to, in order to
> intentionally stick it to them ("I want them to suffer the penalty")?
>
> Wow. I hope this doesn't catch on.
>
> 73,
>
> Bob W5OV
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Art Boyars
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 12:26 PM
> To: pvrc@mailman.qth.net; cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Keeping 'em honest
>
> We had important out-of-town company thru the Thanksgiving weeked (until
> Tuesday evening), so I did not get to make my trek to the W3LPL MM.  All I
> got to do was an hour or so of here-and-there demonstration QSOs ("This is
> ham radio contesting").  CT says 49 QSOs, 18 Zones, 31  Countries, 6,566
> Points.  All S&P of the loud guys, except for a short attempt as a fresh
> meat CQer on high up on 20M Sunday.  That got me a Ukrainian and a VE1, who
> I hope will remember me in SS CW  :>).
>
> I just submitted the log, not because my club will benefit from the points,
> but because a couple of those big guns I worked did not, after a few
> repeats, give me a clear indication that they copied my call/report.  They
> are not in my log, and I want them to suffer the penalty if they claim the
> QSO.
>
> I did work one USA station, a K1 who thought I was answering his CQ, when I
> was actually calling the European right next to him.  I hope the K1 keeps me
> in his log.
>
> 73, Art K3KU
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