[CQ-Contest] Unique perspectives

[George Fremin III]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 05:05:10PM -0400, Mark Bailey wrote:

> 
> Actually, this is likely to change the way I operate in rare cases.  I have
> been known to solicit Sweepstakes contacts from net control stations, for
> instance, when they pop up on my run frequency and tell me the net is
> starting soon.  I also take the time on Sunday to walk stations through
> the Sweepstakes exchange, even on CW, when I have no idea whether they
> will make another contact.  Often (usually?), I suspect they won't.
> 
> I am concerned that such a rule change will make contesters less likely
> to be friendly to the very casual stations. I would certainly not choose
> to not log it, unless there was a penalty, but I may also choose not to
> try to get a QSO (especially in Sweepstakes) and may pass up the
> opportunity to try to recruit a new contest operator.

It is possible it would, but if the rate is slow and you can talk
a guy through an exchange then I do not see how much more it will
slow you down to explain to him that he should work a few more stations.
This sort of activity is going to help your score and it might also 
help the score of someone with whom you are competing but the chances 
are the new station will work someone in a different category.

-- 
George Fremin III - K5TR
geoiii at kkn.net
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr