[CQ-Contest] The irony of Operating Time [was: Logging Time [was:Contesting Time Calculation]]

[k7qq]

OK OK

When I get on prior to a contest and call CQ and start working guys with
quick reports and say CUL OM and call another CQ and do the same I'm
operating and establishing a freq so when the contest starts and somone is
there waiting for the offical start time,  I'm cheating.  along with 90
percent of the other compeditors.

Now I guess I'll have to not Turn On the Radio or start the logging program
before start time or I'm cheating.

Now I got it figured out if I do this and complain about all those others
who Log 2 or 5 QSO's in the first minute as cheaters and should be
disqualified    MAYBE   MAYBE I'll have a small chance of winning.

Quack.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker at kenharker.com>
To: "Ed K1EP" <k1ep.list at gmail.com>
Cc: "Radiosporting Fan" <radiosporting at yahoo.com>; "cq-contest reflector"
<cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] The irony of Operating Time [was: Logging Time
[was:Contesting Time Calculation]]


> On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 05:56:14PM -0500, Ed K1EP wrote:
> > At 1/6/2006 04:11 PM, Kenneth E. Harker wrote:
> >
> >
> > >We've also had discussions on this reflector before about the ethics
> > >of listening to the bands in the hour before a contest officially
> > >starts and building up a bandmap.  It's obviously difficult for
> > >contest sponsors to regulate behavior outside of the official time
> > >period for the contest, but I share the opinion of many others that
> > >this is an unethical, unsportsmanlike practice.
> >
> > So to make the analogy to car racing, practice laps in the days leading
to the race and warmup laps prior to the start are unsportsman?   In the
Tour de France, don't the cyclists take a ride in the morning?  Don't they
drive the course before riding it that day?  Well, maybe only the real
competitive ones.   Don't baseball players take batting practice and
fielding practice before a game?  Is that unethical?  I don't really see too
much wrong in warming up the bands before a contest.   You can't regulate
what happens before a contest.  How far before a contest do you have to go?
What if I were operating two contests that day?  How do I erase my band and
propagation knowledge from the first one before starting the second?  Next
thing you know, there will be little jars that we will have to fill...
>
> If you are populating a bandmap with the express intention of aiding your
> score in a contest, you are (IMHO) operating the contest.*  And if you are
> operating the contest before the official start, you are gaining an unfair
> advantage.  You should not start operating the contest until the official
> start of the contest.
>
> *I see this as very different from preparing for a contest.  Preparation
> could include familiarizing oneself with propagation, making sure your
> radio transmits, your audio sounds good, etc.  But, actually filling in a
> bandmap to my mind is operating the contest, not preparing for it.
>
> This is, as I mentioned, a terribly difficult thing to regulate.
>
> -- 
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> http://www.kenharker.com/
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