[CQ-Contest] unIDs

[PaulKB8N at aol.com]

Paul, 
 
I agree that every third or fourth call is ideal.  We have the  technology 
to enforce it.  I believe that RBN can actually record the  entire contest 
and play back individual stations.  It would be very telling  for some of the 
flagrant violators to listen to the mess they perpetrate.
 
Every time I'd run into what seemed an unruly mob, it was almost always a  
non-IDer.
 
People just mindlessly jump in, thinking whatever attracts  attention must 
be rare and needed.  Oddly, even VEs here in NA were getting  mobbed toward 
the end of the contest, as everyone was looking  for anything/anyone to work.
 
To those who think this behavior can be mitigated by skimming/spotting  
technology, I believe that the SOAB unassisted scores are the true denominator  
for individual performance, and will remain so for many years to come.
 
Paul, K5AF
 
 
In a message dated 11/28/2011 9:11:18 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
pokane at ei5di.com writes:

On  28/11/2011 02:44, Ron Notarius W3WN wrote:

> Some stations ID after  every contact.  Some after every other.  Some 
every
>  minute.  Some less often.  This is nothing new; this goes back as  far 
as I
> can recall, and that goes back to Field Day 1972.

The  problem is recent, and getting worse.  It stems from
those stations  assuming everyone else knows their call
from spots or the RBN.  For as  long as they get a steady
stream of callers, they have no need to ID.   They use
non-IDing as a form of pileup management.

Of course it's  utterly selfish.


> Unless you are going to mandate in the rules  a minimum time to ID over&
> above what is legally required by the  country of license for the station,
> there's not much that can be done  about it.

Contest organisers can, and do, mandate rules that
have  nothing to do with "legalities".  The solution
is not to set a maximum  time between IDs, it might
be better to specify a maximum number of QSOs,  no
more than three or four, because that is easy  to
monitor.

73,
Paul  EI5DI


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