[CQ-Contest] CQWW Survey

[w5ov at w5ov.com]

Paul,

While I appreciate your tenacity with this, your analogy of assistance
being "propulsion" is the one that is incorrect; Randy's analogy of using
a GPS in sailing is indeed comparable to spotting assistance in
contesting.

Let's agree for the moment that propulsion is analogous to making QSOs.

Assistance does not work any qsos for you (propulsion) it merely tells you
where they are located - somewhat like a GPS tells you where you are and
where to route your sailboat.

For your "propulsion" analogy to apply, we'd have to be discussing
combining QRP classes with QRO.  No one is suggesting that.

W5OV




> On 19/03/2013 19:13, Randy Thompson K5ZD wrote:
>
>> I bet sailboat racing was a lot different before they had GPS.
>
> Sometimes I don't make my points clearly.
>
> In drawing a comparison between using the internet
> while contesting, and using motors while sailboat
> racing, I said
>
>    "no one, anywhere, uses another form of propulsion
>    in sailboat racing and claims to be sailing."
>
> I have yet to see a GPS that might be considered a
> form of propulsion, but perhaps I'm not aware of
> the latest technology.
>
> K5ZD has responsibility for the CQ WW survey.  The
> survey asks "Should the Single Operator and Single
> Operator Assisted Categories be combined into one
> Single Operator category?"  To better assist in
> determining what might happen, let's apply a
> similar question to boat racing.
>
> The question becomes "Should Sailboat Racing and
> Powerboat Racing be combined into one category?"
> We don't need much imagination to describe the
> likely outcome.  All entrants would have to be
> powered to be competitive.  However, this would
> be intolerable for the sailboat enthusiasts. They
> would refuse to enter combined races and, sooner
> or later, would set up their own events.
>
> So, what do we think might happen to CQ WW if all
> single operators had to connect to the internet to
> be competitive?
>
> I suggest that, regardless of how the results
> of this survey question are interpreted, it might
> be prudent to retain the SO Unconnected category
> in CQ WW.  After all, who would survey powerboat
> racers on an issue that concerned only sailboat
> racers?
>
> 73,
> Paul EI5DI
>
>
>
>
>
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