[CQ-Contest] Contesting is a Game

[Yuri]

Not a good suggestion in my opinion, Tod.
Looks like protesting against breaking of one rule by breaking another rule.

I was thinking about it for quite a while. I guess only WRTC-style contests 
may be called a "real competition".
All other contests are just... for "having fun".

Yuri  VE3DZ

>
> I can imagine only one way to 'retaliate' or protest. [ select the word of
> your choice] .  One can generate an 'NIL' in another  operator's log. Done
> cleverly, you can even come up with a strategy that will give you a
> multiplier, should you need it, and still create a problem for the
> 'cheating' station.
>
> However, doing such a thing deliberately does place you in the category of
> someone who is not operating ethically in the contest. I suppose if a 
> large
> group of folks were to generate NIL's in one contest for one or a few
> stations and then revert to completely ethical operating for all future
> contests there might be an opportunity to make a point that would be 
> visible
> to serious operators world wide.
>
> The casual operator probably would be oblivious to what had happened.
> Whether this would cause offenders to cease and desist is 
> problematical ---
> I expect not. If you truly believe that "the rules do not apply to me" 
> then
> there will be little reason to change behavior.
>
> This issue was present in amateur radio contesting before I edited the 
> first
> issue of the NCJ in 1972. I suspect that 40 years from now it there will
> still be such scofflaws among our contesting brethren.
>
> Tod, K0TO