[CQ-Contest] An attempt at a foundational understanding [was: I can see the difference...]

[Ev Tupis]

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As for point 5, acting on info overheard, I think it would be very difficult for anyone to ignore such info in a manner such as Tree has suggested. You do have the option to continue your run and ignore the info if it's told directly to YOU on YOUR run frequency but if I'm in a queue for yet another MDC and someone mentions that a mult I need is just up the band, I'm abandoning the MDC for the new one. If that makes me a bad guy, well, I guess I'm a bad guy.
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Contest rules apply to everyone who wishes to be considered a competitor; operating with *both* the objectives of the contest in mind and expecting to be officially rewarded for doing so.

There are those that use contests to seek *other* objectives (e.g. - WAS, Section Sweep, DXCC, etc) that will: (1) play any way that they want to, (2) must be allowed to do so without unnecessary interference -and- (2) must not be allowed to submit a log that could be scored higher than those that followed the rules.

So...it appears that the reality is that you're a "bad guy" if: (1) the event rules say that you can't do what you did, (2) you did it anyway, (3) you submit a log that disadvantages the score-placement of a "good guy".  In a world that lacks absolutes, this is the only possible outcome. :)

Ev, W2EV


 
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