[CQ-Contest] Contest Duration

[Bill Turner]

At 05:44 AM 7/24/2005, Sherman Banks wrote:
>Why can't radio competitors do the same thing.  Do it for fun,
>fellowship, new countries, and to see if you can beat last year's score.
>   If we can emphasize other things besides winning to the vast majority
>of radio operators we can get people saying "Wow - is the contest
>already over!"

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Deep down inside everyone wants to win. Many of us know that won't happen 
given our current location/equipment/whatever, but we have that tiny spark 
of hope anyway. If we take the route you suggest, there would be no reason 
to keep score because nobody would care who was first and the idea of 
'competition' would disappear. Contesting would become nothing more than 
ragchewing with rules.

Like any other form of competition, one can compete with little hope of 
being first and still have fun, but the competition factor must still be there.


Bill, W6WRT