[CQ-Contest] PU2FAN, etc

[Jim Rhodes]

Maybe the proper message should be that the rules don't matter? Is 
that the bigger picture? And Dave was supposed to know the entire 
situation before he posted the list. Get real, the kid unknowingly 
broke the rules. He has been instructed as to the rules and 
presumably will now obey them. If nothing had been said would he have 
learned anything? Even as a teenager (many a long moon ago) I would 
rather have learned from a mistake than to continue to look like a lid.

At 08:56 PM 2/25/2009, John Warren wrote:
>David K1TTT wrote :
>
> > My way the peer feedback is direct and timely.  Hopefully he learned
> > a good
> > lesson and will be back in the next contest, sans packet.
>
>Hmmmm.   I think that attitude is very hard toward this young fellow
>David.  I'm a serious DXer and not a contest entrant, but if you had
>highlighted me in that way, I would have told you where to stuff your
>contest, and it would be years - if ever - before I competed again.
>It would have been magnanimous (and "contest-promoting") for an
>experienced guy like you to offer an apology, or at least an
>explanation,  to this young Brazilian.  There's a bigger picture to
>think about.
>
>73,  John,  NT5C.
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Jim Rhodes K0XU
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Experience is the thing you have left when everything else is gone.