[CQ-Contest] Reflections on comments about open logs

[Barry]

While I am for open logs, there are some things that can be learned from 
competitors' logs. 

For many years, K3WW and I have swapped rate sheets and/or logs.  Over 
the years, I improved enough to beat him when I put in a serious 
effort.  It's hard to say how exactly I improved, but I believe 
comparing hour by hour on those rate sheets and logs, and figuring out 
why his rate/score surpassed mine at various times had something to do 
with it.  Of course, he had the same opportunity to use my info.

Barry W2UP

Robert Naumann wrote:
> 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"
>
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Barry Kutner, W2UP             Newtown, PA