[CQ-Contest] Ethics: some things never change

[kr2q at optimum.net]

Gosh, but this stuff has been beaten to death with, apparently, no clear resolution.

In NCJ, May 1996, I have an article published  covers all of this "stuff."  Some of the
covered topics in my article include:

The Contest Period

QSO Quality

The Post Contest Period

Why do we have 30 days?

Recording the Contest for later review

Creative Technology

Packet Cluster [and now internet spotting]

Use of Super Check Partial and other Databases

Software Changes

Soliciting QSO

How do I know what is OK?


In the opening paragraphs of the article, I cite how I've been working on this article for five
(5) years.  That means these topics have bounced around forever without resolution and 
without consensus.  I was certainly FAR from the first to discuss them in public.

The article closes with a plea for better contest rules...rules that use examples that everybody
can understand.

Well, it's probably time to sweep across 160 again....

de Doug KR2Q