[CQ-Contest] CQ WPX rules, it finally happened

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

On 1/31/2014 8:12 AM, Doug Smith W9WI wrote:
>
> Seriously, yes, it's a contest.  BOTH participants in a contest QSO 
> are trying to COMPETE and WIN.

Actually most participants are just that participants and are trying to 
have fun and know they will not win.  Most don't even send in logs.

To other comments:

If the rule was made for OP's that id every 15 mins why was it not 
written that way?  How did we ever manage to contest in the past without 
this rule?  I guess we should wipe every record every time the rules change.

There were always ways to penalize or DQ the folks doing it wrong 
without this rule.  Is this the biggest problem the WPX contest has?  I 
doubt it.   Why not address those knuckleheads one on one. Contest 
already have too many rules that are not enforced and can't be 
enforced.  More rules and regulations do not attract new players to the 
game.

"good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad 
people will find a way around the laws"
-- Plato <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/879.Plato>

"Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult."
-- Leo Tolstoy 
<http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/128382.Leo_Tolstoy>, /War and 
Peace <http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/4912783>

/Are there stats and metrics that back up making this rule change or we 
just relying on the rule of the squeaky wheel get the grease? What 
percent of participants are not IDing  in the manner the Organizers deem 
proper?  1, 20? 50 percent?

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am still waiting on my December issue and asked for a refund of my 
remaining subscription.  I never got August either and was told twice 
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profit  cause.

If we have a minority of people acting badly in contests then lets 
address them one on one and quit trying to over regulate contesting.  It 
doesn't work in government, why would it work here?

W0MU





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