[CQ-Contest] Category Hopping: a mean thing

[Joe]

Maybe,
Like Field Day, or somewhat Like SS, have your class of entry in the 
exchange?

And it is fine to change classes mid-stream, But "YOU" do not get credit 
for any Q's made with the wrong class you finally decide on. The other 
stations you contacted with the wrong class still get the Q credit, but 
you don't. So start out MM and later switch to M2, fine but all the Q's 
under the MM are gone for you.

Joe WB9SBD
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On 12/7/2015 8:49 PM, Martin , LU5DX wrote:
> Hi guys,
> Category hopping I. The context of what CR3L did is very wrong to say the
> least.
>
> John may have started low Power, then he  got bored and switched to HP.
> That is totally perfect.
>
> Rules for MM may no force you to transmit on al Six bands at the same time
> to enter MM.
>
> In fact, a Team could enter with two or three transmitters in MM, and that
> is fine too, if they actually do it during the Contest.
>
> To me, what is totally wrong is to possitively enter in one category,
> sticking to the rules that define it, and then after the contest, claim a
> different one, just because you realize someone did better than you, and
> you can be in the top spot of a category you did not compete at all in
> during the contest.
>
> So to me bottom line is: if during the Contest you change your category,
> because something you did places you in a diferent one, that's perfectly
> fine. Now if you do it post Contest, just to get a better place in the
> rankings, that's a really bad thing.
>
> Contesting is about "competition" even in the very especial way we compete.
> Lots of uncontrollable factors, geogrhapic advantages and disvantages, etc.
>
> But we also must do it with all due respect to our fellow competitors.
> Wihout that, we are just a herd of wackos trying to "win" something doing
> whatever it takes.
>
> Martín, LU5DX
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