[CQ-Contest] Assistance & Entry Status

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

--- "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey at nl.rogers.com> wrote:
 
> I have been trying to understand why a group as seemingly competitive as
> contesters would even think of spotting stuff for their rivals to benefit
> from. They spend small (or large) fortunes setting up hugely elaborate
> stations in order to beat "the other guy" and then turn around and tell "the
> other guy" where the points are.

We are not just competing "mano a mano", but also as part of contest clubs, and
spots benefit all the club members.

I remember the days when links between certain packet networks (like YCCC and
FRC) were taken down just before a world-wide DX contest started, then restored
later.  Ah, the good old paranoid days.

73 - Jim AD1C


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Jim Reisert AD1C/Ø, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us