[CQ-Contest] Posting Scores

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

I can't speak for others, but N1MM Logger+ gives you the option of *not* 
providing band breakdowns, so I can't see how serious competitors give 
away anythingif the scoreboard doesn't show what band you're on or how 
you are doing on different bands.  Besides, the real audience for this 
is (or should be) non-contesters who wonder what it's all about and 
(hopefully) catch the bug.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 3/25/2015 8:43 PM, Jeffrey Embry wrote:
> 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.
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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
>> myself.
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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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT
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