Hello All,
If you think there is some cheating going on now,
Just wait till it's for money!!
Very Bad Idea...
73,
Ted K2QMF
On Fri, 05 Jun 2015 09:01:34 -0700 Tom Osborne <w7why@frontier.com>
writes:
> Well - even if I paid the $20, the chance of me winning the contest
> AND
> a radio would be less than the chance I have to hit the Powerball
> Jackpot.
>
> If it was just a raffle, not connected to any contest, I'd have a
> lot
> better chance of winning. :-) Don't they do this at hamfests? 73
> Tom W7WHY
>
> >
> >
> > I'm not entirely sure that attaching a raffle to a radio contest
> turns us
> > into professional radio operators any more than playing Texas
> Hold-em
> > at the
> > local Oddfellows Lodge turns people into Daniel Negreanu.
> >
> > But... While I might disagree with Hans on the reasoning, I'm not
> sure I
> > disagree with him on the overall idea of "hurling it aside with
> great
> > force."
> >
> > It is one thing to tell the 90 per cent of us who don't live on
> the
> > Atlantic
> > Rim "it's just for fun, compete among your peers" while the K1s
> and
> > PJ4s and
> > EA8s rack up win after win when the only thing at stake is
> fleeting
> > bragging
> > rights and an overpriced hunk of walnut. It is quite another to
> tell
> > people
> > "Please pay to enter my contest, but know that you'll only win one
> of the
> > radios if you're lucky enough to be geographically blessed."
> >
> > Without some kind of handicapping system to even out geographic
> > disparity, I
> > suspect the response of most hams outside the blessed zones would
> be words
> > unsuitable for a family venue such as CQ-contest. And I suspect
> the
> > operators who did pay would, and perhaps should, be ignored by the
> rest of
> > us.
> >
> > Now, if you had a sponsor and didn't have an entry fee, then I
> > wouldn't see
> > this as any different from when the Bermuda QSO Party awarded a
> trip to
> > Bermuda to the winner.
> >
> > 73, kelly
> > ve4xt
>
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