So now in order to be competitive in a contest, you have to have 1) a
decent operator, 2) a good radio, 3) good antennas, and 4) a good social
media presence. So do I engage a PR firm to spam Facebook and Instragram
to juice the search results such that my FB feed appears first on the
search results?
73 Rich NN3W
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 4:22 PM N4ZR <n4zr@comcast.net> wrote:
> Sterling mentioned one intriguing possibility, the use of delay.
> Wouldn't a long-enough delay eliminate the complaint about soliciting
> contacts by non-amateur means? I'm thinking in terms of an hour or two
> (or 6) for HF contests.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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> On 3/13/2020 11:47 AM, Sterling Mann wrote:
> > This discourse is giving me a lot of insight as to the future of amateur
> > radio contesting.
> > I forgot to mention: gaming has a thing called stream sniping, where
> > opponents try to get an upper hand by watching the streams of a
> competitor.
> > It's just like peeking at player 2's screen on Nintendo64 007 Goldeneye
> > multiplayer. Streamers tend to put long delays or conceal revealing
> > information to combat this. At eSport tournaments, stream sniping
> > vehemently banned, and almost made impossible. Some teams have been
> caught
> > sneaking information about their opponents strategy or whereabouts to
> > competitors remotely, via earpieces, chat programs, etc. New rules and
> > monitoring were put into place.
> >
> >
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