[CQ-Contest] NAQP Revised Rules

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

So how does that affect you as a single op?

You are not competing against SOA.

How is your reward removed because I worked someone using packet?  I can 
still use packet just like M2.  I can use 1500 watts if I want and 
submit no log or a check log.  How does that change what you do?

We used to ride horses and buggies too, some still do but 99 percent of 
us have moved on the cars, bikes other forms of transportation.  We used 
to use spark gap transmitters.  So you have drawn a hard line in the 
sand for packet yet use, computers, fancy SO2R boxes and other 
enhancements to better your score. Anyone up for paper logging and dupe 
sheets?

Please explain how another 70 or even 300  people in their own class is 
going to change anything?

You are not competing against people with packet.  So don't the other 
single ops have to find people by spinning the knobs?  All the knob 
spinners are in the same boat and those that spin knobs and watch spots 
are in another boat and racing against each other not you.  At a drag 
race everyone uses the same two tracks but they have 10 to 20 classes.  
I guess some would want to eliminate certain classes because they are 
too loud or go too fast?  Isn't this what you are doing with packet?  
People don't like it so somehow it changes how they operate.  Am I wrong 
here?

What you won't say is that you might have a more difficult time working 
a mult because there might be a pileup caused by packet. I use packet 
and still find new mults on my own before they get spotted.

You realize that the people use packet to SPOT YOU and that gets you 
more contacts.............  Or maybe you all have forgotten that part.

W0MU



On 12/17/2016 12:21 PM, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:
> Because Tom, it changes the whole dynamic and mechanics of the contest.
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> Right now, rare sections will be discovered by all single ops by spinning
> the VFO and using their ears.
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> If there were to be a SO(A) category instituted, rare sections would always
> (or usually) have a "packet pileup" on them.
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> The unassisted op is no longer rewarded for being a sharp fox with elephant
> ears due to the fact assisted ops and the massive worldwide RBN
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> feeds beats them to the punch in 99% of cases.
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> It used to be, the sharp ops found the most mults by THEMSELVES.  Now ,
> anyone with a telnet feed can find the mults..
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> Mike VE9AA
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> I have subscribed to the "boy and his radio" idea since I started ham
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> radio in 1975, and have never been much of a fan of packet. I have
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> always likened it to spoon feeding. However, I have a question to
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> those who have expressed their opposition to it in this thread:
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> If a separate SOA category was created for NAQP, how would that
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> detract from the enjoyment of operating the contest  for those
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> who choose to run under the SO category? I can't see how it would
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> change anything as far as the actual mechanics of the contest is concerned,
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> other than it might incite a few people who would not otherwise participate
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> to join in, meaning more QSO's for the SO ops. The only thing it would
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> change
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> would be to move numbers from one section of the score results to another.
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> The ops who are at the top of the heap in the scores are still going to be
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> there, no matter what category they are in, because they have better
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> operating skills and better stations.
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> Let the assisted stations fight it out amongst themselves, it matters
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> not a wit to me.
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> K0SN
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> Mike, Coreen & Corey
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> Keswick Ridge, NB
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