[CQ-Contest] Spotting

[Paul J. Piercey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of David 
> Robbins K1TTT
> Sent: December 23, 2006 14:49
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Spotting
> 
> > I beats me why anyone actively engaged in a contest who 
> finds a rare 
> > multiplier by S&P would want to alert his competitors so 
> that they can 
> > also work the rare mult !!
> 
> Alerting competitors is a side effect we pay for having world 
> wide connectivity on the network today.  Originally the 
> networks were partitioned and used to alert fellow club 
> members of new multipliers to help them and the club aggregate score.
> 

This may have been a valid reason before the greatly expanded cluster
network but now, with world wide availability and connectivity,I too have
wondered why anyone would want to help another competitor. Then it occurred
to me... not everyone is out to win.

73 -- Paul VO1HE