[CQ-Contest] Re: Uh, well......

[WB4TDB at aol.com]

Scott,
I am glad you called a spade a space.  Keep up the
good work.  It would be interesting to spot as with
requested with the comment "do not work".  With a
comment such as that their QSO rate would either go
up or really head south.  From this station it would
go south and not be worked in this contest or future
contests.
73
Vollie
W4TDB



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>From K0HB at qwest.net" <K0HB at qwest.net  Thu Mar 29 01:16:41 2001
From: K0HB at qwest.net" <K0HB at qwest.net (Hans K0HB)
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 02:16:41 +0100
Subject: [CQ-Contest] TO5T - Cheating in real time!
Message-ID: <01C0B7F6.A9D1A320.K0HB at qwest.net>


Scott Robbins wrote:

 >
 > It's 2120Z on Saturday - if you're reading this in
 > real time, tune your rig to 21.207.4 and listen to
 > TO5T asking about every third caller to spot him on
 > packet in WPX SSB.  Cheating!
 >

Hi Scott,

I'll try to answer you within the bounds of "gentlemen
can disagree without being disagreeable".  (In other
words, "we're all entitled to an opinion".)

Point #1 - The spotting network exists to assist
contesters to achieve higher scores.  I can make
an argument that it should not be active during
contests, but it is.

Point #2 - The rules do not prohibit on-the-air
solicitation of contacts, nor do they prohibit
solicitation of "spots".  I can make an argument that
they should, but they do not.

Therefor I can't agree with you that they were cheating.

73, Hans, K0HB


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