Paul,
I agree that every third or fourth call is ideal. We have the technology
to enforce it. I believe that RBN can actually record the entire contest
and play back individual stations. It would be very telling for some of the
flagrant violators to listen to the mess they perpetrate.
Every time I'd run into what seemed an unruly mob, it was almost always a
non-IDer.
People just mindlessly jump in, thinking whatever attracts attention must
be rare and needed. Oddly, even VEs here in NA were getting mobbed toward
the end of the contest, as everyone was looking for anything/anyone to work.
To those who think this behavior can be mitigated by skimming/spotting
technology, I believe that the SOAB unassisted scores are the true denominator
for individual performance, and will remain so for many years to come.
Paul, K5AF
In a message dated 11/28/2011 9:11:18 A.M. Central Standard Time,
pokane@ei5di.com writes:
On 28/11/2011 02:44, Ron Notarius W3WN wrote:
> Some stations ID after every contact. Some after every other. Some
every
> minute. Some less often. This is nothing new; this goes back as far
as I
> can recall, and that goes back to Field Day 1972.
The problem is recent, and getting worse. It stems from
those stations assuming everyone else knows their call
from spots or the RBN. For as long as they get a steady
stream of callers, they have no need to ID. They use
non-IDing as a form of pileup management.
Of course it's utterly selfish.
> Unless you are going to mandate in the rules a minimum time to ID over&
> above what is legally required by the country of license for the station,
> there's not much that can be done about it.
Contest organisers can, and do, mandate rules that
have nothing to do with "legalities". The solution
is not to set a maximum time between IDs, it might
be better to specify a maximum number of QSOs, no
more than three or four, because that is easy to
monitor.
73,
Paul EI5DI
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