[CQ-Contest] PC hits CQ-Contest

[Jim Rhodes]

Would this be a bad time to say that I don't believe that anyone would 
actually have the naivete to come on halfway through a contest & say "Work 
me again, I lost my computer log". But I have been told by some that this 
has happened.

At 10:27 PM 11/6/02, k4oj wrote:
>Before this goes any further...everybody sit tight!
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>I am the one who has "accused" N0FP of making up this guy...this is my 
>feeling alone - and should I find out that this story holds water I will 
>immediately post a message to this reflector that I appologize to N0FP for 
>that charactarization...
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>I should note that I do appreciate Ford calling me in the SS this past 
>weekend, at the that point he hadon Saturday night he had logged 188 calls 
>in his log so he clearly is NOT incapable of CW contesting!
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>My gut feeling is that there are not contesters out there who deliberately 
>shoot themselves in the foot by telling a calling station to "go awy" - I 
>have been told to go away in essence by non-contesters wwho I happen to 
>find in heretofore unworked multipliers on any given weekend...that is 
>about the only time a contest QSO is turned down!
>
>I have NOT spoken with Ford, and am asking he reply to me directly so we 
>can continue this discussion privately...
>
>My reaction is a result of years of watching contesting get watered 
>down...too many categories and too little recognition of significant 
>achievements put forth by guys from propagationally challenged area, 
>etc.  Before this sucker gained a head of steam and someone suggested a 
>new category for making their first 100 CW contests contacts I interjected.
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>SO - EVERYBODY QRX (for you phone guys that means standby)
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>To K0HB - I gather you know Ford, please tell him to get with me on this, 
>as anyone who reads this reflector knows I am very much so 
>pro-contesting...it was not my intention to make this reflector appear 
>like the TV commercials of the previous week....
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>73,
>
>Jim, K4OJ QRX fer N0FP
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>Hans K0HB wrote:
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>>On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 08:00:22 -0800 (PST) John Geiger <johngeig at yahoo.com>
>>wrote:
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>>>Do I take my rig and go home, and write messages to the reflector 
>>>whining about
>>>how unfair it is?
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>>John,
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>>I don't necessarily agree with the thrust of the message from Ford, but he
>>damn sure wasn't whining about "unfair".  He was trying to make a point as he
>>saw it.  No we may see it differently, but sarcasm and accusing him of making
>>up stories to voice his view as waaaaaaaaaaaaay out of line.
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>>73, de Hans, K0HB
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>>~~~
>>  We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different
>>  people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play
>>  the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society
>>  evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique
>>  capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.
>>          --Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
>>~~~
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Jim Rhodes K0XU
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