[CQ-Contest] Contesting is a Game

[Tod Olson]

Yuri and others who sent me direct emails:

I agree with you entirely. The two sentences below were included in my email
to point out that 'breaking a rule' in response to someone else 'breaking a
rule' is non-ethical and probably not effective.

" ŠHowever, doing such a thing deliberately does place you in the category
of
someone who is not operating ethically in the contest. "

"ŠWhether this would cause offenders to cease and desist is problematical
---  I expect not."

I suspect we should do as we do with deliberate QRM;  ignore it and continue
operating or  move away to a different place. As Yuri says, "Šonly
WRTC-style contests may be called a "real competition".

Tod, K0TO







On 9/12/13 12:59 PM, "Yuri" <ve3dz at rigexpert.net> wrote:

> 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
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