[CQ-Contest] Best & worst scenarios - 3830 postings

Michael Coslo mjc5 at psu.edu
Tue Sep 2 10:27:30 EDT 2008


On Sep 1, 2008, at 7:45 AM, Eric Hall, K9GY wrote:

>
> How do you think K5ZD, W3WN, N7MAL, KG5U, N4VI feels after seeing
> that someone with a top score didn't take the few minutes to post
> to 3830? That's the issue...Does waiting NINE months to find out
> they've been skunked make them feel good? I don't think so!

But they haven't been skunked. They were beat. This shows the fallacy  
of relying on preliminary scores as any kind of determination of final  
scores - not of enforced use of those preliminary scores. People make  
mistakes - like the "29 minute break" fellow. And here some people are  
proposing to scour the 3930 to make him wear a scarlet letter. I have  
a preliminary score web page, and a logs received web page. But it is  
used for just those things - logs received happen as we get the logs,  
and preliminary scores get posted after contest deadline. No surprises  
happen, and adjustments are not bandied about. There are always  
changes - the most common one being that a fair number of softwares  
doesn't score correctly.

	And the insinuation by some that somehow not posting to the reflector  
is somehow related to cheating is particularly offensive. Some  
fatherly advice here might be "do not see a cheater behind every  
tree". You don't want to dilute your message too much. And coupling  
3930 posting to contesting ethics is a  galloping great lot of dilution.

And my advice to people who want the contest results immediately - get  
involved with the contest of your choice. Do something. Help. Make a  
difference. One thing I can guarantee is a  new perspective.

-73 de Mike N3LI -




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