[CQ-Contest] Re: penalty

[Maurizio Panicara]

Several groups are planning top MM entry for the next WW with a final
planned QSO number that's largely exceding 20.000 contacts to be
competitive. None of those groups will not try to log each single hard to
complete QSO if the QSO really take place and completes. None of those
groups will afford expenses and efforts doubting that WW penalty rule can
negatively affect partecipation and their final QSO number.
Why the many others whose the goal is to chase some dx and get some cards
for awards would have troubles with penalty in case of busted QSOs ?
QSL cards shouldn't be confirmed if calls aren't correctly logged on either
sides.
This point is not only weak but is totally in line to support penalties for
busted/incomplete QSOs.
All considered, "guessing" DXers are not so many like you suspect, and those
ones are anyway not much interested if penaltyes are existing or not or in
the contest that's a media for them, and not the finality.
Those who think "I didn't hear well, but let's log and send the QSL may be
he logged my call and confirms" have a mind that's not yet tailored for
succesfull contesting and are very far from having real fun from amateur
radio activities.
This doesn't prohibit they change their mind and finally discover that they
can be better in beeing fast and accurate rather than in the gambling game.
Final results that reflects skills at any level just enhance partecipation.

73,
Mauri I4JMY



----- Original Message -----
From: <Jimk8mr at aol.com>
To: <i4jmy at iol.it>; <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Re: penalty


> In a message dated 9/9/00 9:38:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time, i4jmy at iol.it
> writes:
>
> > In a contest perspective the goal is to compare skillnesses of operators
and
> >  possibly to determine the best ones,  for geographical zone or world,
> among
> >  the mass of the entrants.
>
>
> For the guys or groups at the top, this is true.
>
> For many others, the goal is to chase some dx, get some cards for awards,
> etc.
>
> If the scoring criteria for the big gun guys means that any questionable
qsos
> must be avoided, even if 74.9% of them would have been good, then many in
> Group 2 will not get their qsos and qsls, and their contest goals will not
be
> met.
>
> For a top gun to make 10,000 qsos requires lots of people from group 2.
We
> ought not set rules with likely unintended consquences that diminish the
> experience for these people, and thereby reduce their interest in getting
on
> the air.
>
> Although most of this discussion has centered on CW contests, with the
> question of one missing dot in W7WHY's call, the negative effect is
probably
> greater in SSB contests, where there is a wider group of casual operators.
> We CW guys have become a somewhat static group of regulars.
>
>
> Jim   K8MR
>


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