[CQ-Contest] public logs (there are no secrets)

[Mike N0HI]

I look at it like this:

Once submitted, my logs become the property of the contest sponsor.  They
may do with them as they please.  If they make the logs public, so be it. 
The moment I disagree with their use of the logs, I'll just stop
submitting mine.

As for secrets, if you have a real good one, please complain loudly now so
when the logs do go public (and they always will), I'll know which ones to
look at.

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



>
> Well I don't agree that there are no secrets left, I have one.  Probably
> won't help the top ten stations too much, but it could.
>
> The year I used my "secret" strategy, no one else was doing the same
> thing, no one.  Yes no one.  It would have been obvious to me if anyone
> else was.
>
> The story
>
> My first year in this house I operated a particular contest with only a
> 80/40 meter trap dipole at the top of my newly installed tower.  It was up
> at 80 feet or so.  That year I had a “secret” strategy that I planned
> out over the several weeks prior to the contest.
>
> Now here in Western New York we don’t put up any top ten scores, my
> goals have always been limited to 1) being first in the section and 2)
> trying to better my previous best score.
>
> Well you know, somehow, sometime that light bulb went off in my head, and
> I got this great idea, planned it out, executed the plan and
> what-do-ya-know.  I finished first in WNY and also set a new section
> record in the process, all with an 80/40 trap dipole at 80 feet.
>
> No 20 meter antenna, no 15 meter antenna no 10 meter antenna.  80m and 40m
> only.  I didn't get a sweep but came close.  I did load it on 20m I
> believe for a few QSO's.
>
> If my log was posted for all to see my strategy would have been revealed,
> and that advantage would have been lost.  The "secret" would not have been
> obvious by looking at the log, but it was there to see.  That is, if
> anyone even bothered to look at my puny log from WNY.  But the other guys
> in WNY might have.
>
> So, for the past 12 years or so now my competition has been trying to
> break that WNY section record to no avail.  My competition has multiple
> towers, stacked yagis, better radios than me, beverage antennas, more
> power, good op too, etc…
>
> So here is my TS930, SB220 and 80/40 trap dipole versus FT-1000’s,
> Alpha’s and stacked yagis.  And what ??  the trap dipole wins !  How did
> that happen?  The "secret" strategy that's how.
>
> My secret ?  Well if my log was published for all to see back then, I
> would not have been happy about that, but I would have submitted the log
> anyway.
>
> So I ask, why would a contest sponsor publish all of our logs anyway ?
> Trying to get the "mob" to do their dirty work for them ?  i.e. calling
> out the cheaters ? Why not use that effort to get the results and awards
> out more quickly ?
>
> Why take the time to publish the logs?  What is in it for the sponsor?
>
> I haven't seen anyone answer that question, or I might have missed it.
>
> My "secret" strategy ?  Maybe I’ll put it in my will.
>
> 73 Scott W2LC
>
>
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