[CQ-Contest] Reflections on comments about open logs

[Robert Naumann]

Hans,

As you know, all the logs from the 2007 CQWW are now posted publicly.

Can you (or anyone else) show an example from any one of the CQWW logs where
you can identify a unique strategy that would help a competitor?

73,

Bob W5OV


-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of K0HB 
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 8:13 PM
To: kr2q at optimum.net; cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Reflections on comments about open logs

KR2Q: 
  
>      a.   Someone who is not in the top ten has little reason to fear
having their secrets revealed.  
>           This is almost an oxymoron.

That's got to be one of the most mean-spirited and bloated-head statements
I've ever seen on this reflector!

Repeating what I said in email to one of the contest sponsors:

I'm a contester of modest skills and a modest station, yet I aspire to "be
somebody" in my own little niche of contesting. That niche is ARRL SS, and
while being in the "Top Ten" is a goal which so far eludes me, over the
past 30 years (actually in the past 15 years) I have snagged several
Division plaques. For one glorious (to me) year, I owned the Division
record in one category.
 
I believe that strategy played a part in those wins, and that if I continue
to refine strategies and improve my skills I may continue to scratch out a
plaque now and then.  If I'm very persistent, and very good at learning
from my experiences, perhaps .... just perhaps.... I'll grab a spot in a
top-ten box.

I also believe that an intelligent competitor could examine my logs and
glean some of those hard-gained strategies, especially if he had open
access to several years of my logs. 

73, de Hans, K0HB
"I make the top-ten possible"