[CQ-Contest] SS CW thoughts

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

At 05:53 PM 10/30/2002 -0500, Georgek5kg at aol.com wrote:

>If I go assisted (still undecided), I will continue to put out spots 
>without sections for two reasons:  1.) I don't want the bother of having 
>to enter section info into the spot, and 2.) I don't believe that the 
>section info should be included in the spot info; the section should be 
>learned during the exchange.

Good for you, George.  You are entitled to do whatever you want.  Packet 
during SS is a bottomless pit of lazy operators, and it starts merely hours 
into the contest.  I've witnessed the harassment (*) given to people who 
put out spots without the sections in them.  I don't understand why it's so 
darned important.  IMHO, getting a clean sweep has been totally minimized 
by the use of packet.  Thank heavens that the ARRL finally outlawed using 
DX packet clusters to work QSOs in Field Day a few years back.

73 - Jim AD1C

(*) I'm not a lawyer, and I don't play one on TV either!


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