[CQ-Contest] Posting Scores

[Jeffrey Embry]

I can't speak for others,  but I will say watching the scores will be my
way of participating this weekend as I will not be able to play due to
recovering from surgery that is scheduled for Friday.

So I welcome as much participation as possible.   Contesting can be a
spectator sport.

73

Jeff
K3OQ
On Mar 25, 2015 8:39 PM, "Ken Widelitz" <widelitz at gte.net> wrote:

> I've been reading this thread and having a hard time understanding why
> anyone who is seriously competing would want to tell their competitors how
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> I've never looked at a scoreboard, except for WRTC 2014, and I was not
> competing against the WRTC competitors. Of course, for the most part I
> operate unassisted, so I'm not seeing where the competition is operating.
> But even in my serious assisted efforts, virtually exclusively in phone
> contests, I don't want to look at a scoreboard.
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> If I saw I was way ahead, I would get complacent. If I saw I was way behind
> I would get discouraged, not motivated. But that is what I know about
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> This aspect of our hobby is called "contesting." It is a competition. Why
> help your competition by telling them how you are doing if they have a
> personality where it might motivate them?
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> I have a hard time believing that watching a scoreboard is going to attract
> non contesting hams to contesting. Watching an actual operation to see the
> fun and actually operating is going to do that.
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> 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT
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