[CQ-Contest] Contest Spam

[Bill Turner]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 07:53:19 -0500, "Kenneth E. Harker"
<kharker at cs.utexas.edu> wrote:

>Who cares if they spam a few thousand hams looking for that extra QSO 
>or two?
>
>
>Doesn't it all add up?  Is any of it really _contesting_?  What makes 
>pre-contest spamming any more ethically or socially acceptable than 
>these other unethical score-booster activities?

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Gotta agree with that.  I don't use packet myself when contesting, so
I have no personal interest in it.  I think the contest sponsors
should go ahead and allow self-spotting.  The clusters would be so
jammed full it would become worthless and we could all get back to
"real" contesting.  :-) 

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73, Bill W7TI