[CQ-Contest] Scourges of Contesting, Chapter One

[Kenneth E. Harker]

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 04:23:22PM +0300, jukka.klemola at nokia.com wrote:
> Can we leave this decision to the Great Audience
> i.e. the spectators?
> 
> Technology exists.
> We can make this happen.

True.
 
> If showing this information is of interest and
> somehow gets more people to participate, 
> this is good..?

If showing this information is of interest and
somehow people use it to affect the fairness of the
competition, this is good...?

The DX cluster system probably got a lot of people 
more interested in contesting, but it has also
done a lot of serious damage to the sport.

> Based on the interest the Great Audience showed
> to the 2002 near-live scoreboard, this will
> succeed in getting people to be interested in
> contesting.

The reason the scoreboard worked at WRTC 2002 was
that there were anonymous callsigns involved.  Will
this be done for every contest?
 
> 
> 73,
> Jukka OH6LI
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ext james neiger [mailto:n6tj at sbcglobal.net]
> > Sent: 20 May, 2003 07:53
> > To: CQ-Contest at contesting.com
> > Subject: [CQ-Contest] Scourges of Contesting, Chapter One
> > 
> > 
> > Upon arrival in Finland last July, and prior to WRTC,  I 
> > opined that I thought real-time contest scoring/reporting was 
> > a "stupid" idea.  I still think it's a stupid idea.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Jim Neiger  N6TJ
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