>To: i4jmy@migate.ampr.org
>Subject: [CQ-Contest] Time Limits
>From: n2dldave@juno.com (Dave Lemm)
>
>Gentlemen,
>Can anyone tell me why the Single OP has time limits in a contest.
>If a contest runs for 48 hours then everyone should be allowed to use
>that time. Not just 30 or 36 hours.
>I do not understand the reasoning behind this.
>I am glad to see the CQWW RTTY Contest has NO time limitations
>I think it is time for a change.
>What do you other Single Ops think??
>73 de Dave N2DL
Hi Dave,
I see already you are full of answers so I think I can give also mine to
You without the risk to be an isolated voice.
Afetr 19 years of contesting, in my opinion You are perfectly right when
you say in favour of the 48 hours.
When the contest ends at the end of the 48 hour, everyone should be allowed
to manage his partecipation as he likes, in terms of times, in order to
develop its own strategy too.
I've seen among the answers you got from cq-contest reflector, mixed with
a group of people giving sensate opinions, there is another one that's or
appears a bit "simple minded" or a bit hipocrite.
Apart all the possible hipotesis....I think the most real is the following.
A 48 hour effort is harder, but more satisfactory, than a shorter one.
A 48 hour effort brings an individual to have one or more period of decline
in performances but this is an ineluctable consequence to accept.
Voices, "vox populi vox dei" said the ancient latin sentence, reports not
all the ham community is strictly behaving in the real "ham spirit" during
contest, the contester community probably has its black sheeps too even if
I'm convinced it's, numerically, a tolerable minority.
Among the "voices" one told "single-groups" rather single human being enter
single op., another "voice" report of people taking the "chemical aid" to
stay awake in the "full" of the energy during the whole 48h period.
While the first "voice" is clearly reporting a violation of the rules, the
second, rather bad and sad, it is not. Is it existing any contest rule
against "doping" ?? (common sense tells it shouldn't be a need, but....)
You understand then, that a time period is probably a nasty tool used as
a leveling one in favour of who want not to "suffer" so much, and to avoid
and to limit a bit, unfair partecipations.
Like this, anyway, an important part of the contest, how to share your
energy and the strategy in general, are seriously affected in "damage" of
the better operators.
A question would be: why the CQWW has not time limit but it is among the
very first, when not the top in the WW contests, event of the year in
term of partecipation ?
I think the answer lay in a couple of symple considerations:
The respect of the rules can't be totally under control, but CQWW has a
comitte that's REALLY controlling logs so the contest it is not left
totally under individuals honesty.
The "strange" things comes out and are rightly punished while final result
are credible.
Good people know it, feel the contest more serious and, among many other
good effects, a part of the time limitation need drops by itself.
Even who has not the time for a full time entering, enters single op. too
and this without any partialized time "partecipation promoting rule".
With a 48 period there is more fun and there is more space for the good
operator.
73 de Mauri I4JMY (one of IR4T)
E-mail i4jmy@uugate.aim.utah.edu
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