On 1/31/2014 8:12 AM, Doug Smith W9WI wrote:
Seriously, yes, it's a contest. BOTH participants in a contest QSO
are trying to COMPETE and WIN.
Actually most participants are just that participants and are trying to
have fun and know they will not win. Most don't even send in logs.
To other comments:
If the rule was made for OP's that id every 15 mins why was it not
written that way? How did we ever manage to contest in the past without
this rule? I guess we should wipe every record every time the rules change.
There were always ways to penalize or DQ the folks doing it wrong
without this rule. Is this the biggest problem the WPX contest has? I
doubt it. Why not address those knuckleheads one on one. Contest
already have too many rules that are not enforced and can't be
enforced. More rules and regulations do not attract new players to the
game.
"good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad
people will find a way around the laws"
-- Plato <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/879.Plato>
"Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult."
-- Leo Tolstoy
<http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/128382.Leo_Tolstoy>, /War and
Peace <http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/4912783>
/Are there stats and metrics that back up making this rule change or we
just relying on the rule of the squeaky wheel get the grease? What
percent of participants are not IDing in the manner the Organizers deem
proper? 1, 20? 50 percent?
CQ Magazine
Welcome to the world of Capitalism where businesses succeed and fail.
CQ has had a good run. Apparently, they failed to keep up with the
times or made some decisions that have detrimental to their business. I
am still waiting on my December issue and asked for a refund of my
remaining subscription. I never got August either and was told twice
that it was being mailed. I have no intentions of "donating" for a for
profit cause.
If we have a minority of people acting badly in contests then lets
address them one on one and quit trying to over regulate contesting. It
doesn't work in government, why would it work here?
W0MU
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