[CQ-Contest] Spotting

[Kelly Taylor]

Hi all,

It often occurs to me that we contesters believe too much that a contest is 
just for the contesters.

Lots of people operate during contests, not for the sake of entering the 
contest but simply to get some BIC time or add to their country, WAS or WPX 
totals.

Which is why turning off packet or writing packet out of the rules just 
isn't feasible: it's still going to be there to service all the operators 
who don't need to obey any contest rules. Folk who cheat the rule about 
claiming assisted aren't suddenly going to become honourable, upstanding 
citizens when the rules forbid it entirely.

Also, it's possible for SO-non-assisted to make -- but not watch -- spots. 
Since the SO-non-assisted isn't in competition with the assisted, it doesn't 
affect the non's relative competitiveness.

I also think that the Golden Rule powers some assisted to make spots: don't 
watch them if you're not prepared to add to them.

73, kelly
ve4xt


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Zack" <k7acz at cox.net>
To: <vo1he at rac.ca>
Cc: <cq-contest at contesting.com>; <k1ttt at arrl.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Spotting


> It would also help or encourage people to go to rare DX locations.  A
> DXpedition couldn't justify the expense and trouble if they sat and
> called CQ all day with a few S&P stations lucky enough to come across
> them answering their CQ.  By being spotted they will get more contacts
> and thus a higher score.  I can remember sitting portable DU calling CQ
> Contest for maybe 10 minutes with no replies, then one JA answered me,
> then in the next few minutes I had a mini pileup of JA's and HL's.  I'm
> sure it was because someone spotted me even if I didn't ask for them to
> do so.  Maybe I just sounded lonely.
>
> Paul J. Piercey wrote:
>
>>>-----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
>>
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>>
>
> -- 
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