[CQ-Contest] HQ station thing

[David Robbins K1TTT]

Someone can always find something wrong with the rules in any given contest.
It favors someone, it cuts out someone else, it is biased toward these guys,
etc, etc, etc...

The way I see it you have 4 options:
1. get into a position with the governing organization where you can
influence the writing of the rules.
2. start your own contest with whatever rules you want and see who plays in
it.
3. stop complaining, figure out how to make the most of what exists, and
have fun
4. just stop playing in the contest you don't like



David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
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AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
> bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of K3BU at aol.com
> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 14:44
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] HQ station thing
> 
> Howdy serious contesters.
> 
> With the proliferation of HQ station multipliers I am just wondering about
> the "wiseness" of the idea.
> Let me elaborate. HQ stations count as multipliers, so there is a big
> desire
> to have each country/society have their rep on during IARU. This is means,
> those who can master the troops, fire up Multi-Multi style with CW/phone
> teams on
> each band. This also means that there are lots of kW+ signals covering the
> bands, mostly CQing.
> The net result is bands piled wall to wall with big "multiplier" signals
> CQing their heads off.
> This was especially noticeable to us poor souls in WRTC Slovenia, where we
> tried between lightning strikes and crashes, shutdowns, to find the spot
> and get
> some runs, only to be clobbered by the perpetual CQs from the HQers.
> This situation is especially pronounced in Europe and on low bands, where
> there is no escape. (Any comments from Eu QRP gallery?)
> In the rest of the remote world it is not as pronounced due to lower
> density
> of the societies on the low bands.
> I know we are trying to spice our boring contesting, HQ idea is in a way
> different, but I think it might snowball into mostly serious HQ station's
> contest.
> I just thought I bring it up with 2005 IARU and soon WRTC in Brazil, to
> pay
> attention to the situation, see if it is a concern, maybe there are ways
> to
> improve on it.
> Wouldn't Tesla Cup with its "ideal" rules be a better venue?
> 
> Yuri, S561C
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