[CQ-Contest] QSO Penalties

[Nat Heatwole]

Yuri, K3BU wrote:

> You don't pay three times your speeding ticket fine

You're distorting the issue. The speeding ticket fine is the PENALTY for
speeding, just as losing 3 QSOs is the PENALTY for logging an incorrect QSO.
Each improper act has a corresponding penalty. Three times the speeding
ticket fine is a meaningless concept here.

> It is simple as that: you either get it right and claim/get the points, or

> not, in which case you lose the points that you did not get right. Any
> "explanation" why it should be retained, is just twisted logic.

So you're saying that if one gets a QSO wrong that one should lose only that
QSO and incur no additional penalty? Interesting...

Consider this analogy: it is discovered that a politician running for office
has been bribing election officials and rigging the balloting to increase
the chances of their winning. Using your logic, the politician should only
lose the election. They should not, however, in addition to losing the
election be sent to jail for bribing public officials and for election
fraud. Is this really a desirable outcome? If these penalties did not exist,
politicians would be behaving like this left and right (pun intended) and
politics would become even less professional and meaningful.

Rules exist both to help ensure that one does not profit from improper
conduct and to promote proper conduct by penalizing someone found breaking
the rules. In your scheme of only losing the dinged QSO, only the former
goal is attained.

73,
Nat WZ3AR