[CQ-Contest] How unethical is this?

[Mike N0HI]

What you suggest might be unethical in some situations, but I think getting 
new or otherwise inactive hams on the air balances out the equation.  If you 
are angling for a top spot, you could bring yourself under more scrutiny, 
but I would not be concerned otherwise.  I find it difficult to believe 
anyone would fault you for trying to rally more interest in contesting 
(y'all know we need more), especially five Q's that I can only presume are 
in the same section.  Start lining up Q's with your friends in the Dakotas 
on the other hand, and we'll start whining!

--
Mike DeChristopher, N0HI
http://www.n0hi.net
telnet://cluster.n0hi.net



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Art Boyars" <artboyars at gmail.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>; <pvrc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 7:28 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] How unethical is this?


> It's against the rules to telephone somebody during the Contest to get
> them on the air to work you.  Some people think that making skeds even
> BEFORE the 'Test is unethical.  (I wonder if they also think it's
> unethical to make the sked during a random radio QSO before the 'Test.
> If so, should we penalize the guys who say "CU in test this weekend"
> while running before the 'Test?)
>
> In my neghborhood are many hams, from slightly active to inactive.
> There are three within 100 meters of my house, including the young man
> next door with a Technician Class ticket.  (His antennas are fancier
> than mine!)  Many of these neighborhood hams are co-congregants, and I
> would be friends with them even outside ham radio.
>
> During CQWW SSB I was fooling around; made a few tens of QSOs with the
> Big Guns.  Concurrently, I had the Tech next door help me lower my
> dipole to check it out for SS CW.  After we finished putting the
> dipole back up, I took him into the shack so he could hear how an HF
> contest sounded.  Of course, he was fired up.
>
> During SS CW, when I took my Sunday morning break for worship
> services, one of the inactive-but-still-interested hams was there
> (he's a pathologist in the Air Force).  He knows the code -- used to
> copy 30 WPM on a mill -- so I invited him to drop by to listed to SS
> CW for a bit.  (Must have cost me three irreplacable QSOs to slow down
> and explain to him what was going on.)  You could see the juices
> flowing.  He wants to get back on the air.
>
> Another co-congregant down the street has a tribander HF beam, an
> inverted V, and a 6M yagi.  Every time I see him he describes
> excitedly how he is working EU on 40 and 80 SSB every night, or the
> magical QSOs on 6M.
>
> So, what I am thinking to do is invite a lot of the neighborhood hams
> to drop by during SS SSB on Sunday (probably a two-hour Open Shack),
> and show them how it's done and how much fun it is.  And then
> encourage them to get on the air and work some people that day.
>
> So far, so good for the ethics -- I think.  But if I asked them to get
> on, say 10M (to get the Tech), at some certain time and try working
> each other, and I just happened to work them there, I think that would
> be unethical, if not actually against the rules.
>
> Could I suggest that they get on when I am likely to be on, and listen
> for me?  How far do you think I could go, ethically, in getting them
> to work me?
>
> We're talking about maybe 5 QSOs in a log that will be lucky to get
> 300.  Of course, your opinion should NOT be influenced by the
> closeness of the PVRC-NCCC SS competition going into the SSB weekend,
> and any thought that I might give them a PVRC roster.  :>)
>
> 73, Art K3KU
> Packet-free, skimmer-free, loudness-free.
> Go PVRC!
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