[CQ-Contest] ARRL and Open Logs - Time for the next step?

[K0HB]

>
> Hans,
>
> I would be most interested in what you perceive as being negative about
the
> logs being public. I am not aware of anything negative resulting for any
of
> the participants of the last two years of CQWW contests whose logs are
> public.
>
> What would you say to convince someone else that your perspective on this
is
> valid? (Aside from you having a right to an opinion - of course).
>
> Or more simply - why?
>
> 73,
>
> Bob W5OV
>

Hi Bob,

Off reflector K1AR asked a similar question, so I'll just cut and paste
that exchange below:

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K1AR Question:

Hans,
 
As a guy who is part of contest sponsorships, I'm having a hard time
understanding what you and others are trying to protect with the focus on
privacy? This is a ham radio contest log, not our banking records. I am
more than willing to show the world what I do in contesting; error rates,
logs, the good and the ugly. The most common conclusion that many come to
is that the push for privacy is based on the fact that they have something
to hide from their peers.
 
Help me better understand this issue.
 
73 John, K1AR 

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K0HB Response:

John,
 
I respect your accomplishments in contesting, and I know that you're
competent at expressing yourself in writing, so we can have this discussion
without the Captain Obvious patronization like "this is..... not our
banking records", or the thinly veiled hints at motives of cheating.
 
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.
 
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.  
 
So, yes, I suppose I >>AM<< trying to hide something from my peers.  I'm
trying to hide the pool of strategies that I've built over many years "in
the trenches".  
 
As a contest sponsor, what is your motivation for making those strategies
public?
 
73, de Hans, K0H