[CQ-Contest] Posting Scores

[Fco. Luis Delgadillo]

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> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 20:43:16 -0400
> From: jeffrey.embry at gmail.com
> To: widelitz at gte.net
> CC: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Posting Scores
> 
> 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
> > they are doing.
> >
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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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> > myself.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT
> >
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