[CQ-Contest] Open Letter to VE Contesters

[sbloom at acsalaska.net]

Maybe I'm just too much of a "well this is just always the way it has 
been done" type ...but ..it seems to me that anyone seriously 
contesting is "competing" but they are competing for different things. 
 Short of radically changing the rules of most contests (and in the 
process ..making them all depressingly similar) ..we know that ...for 
example ...winning CQWW is going to require being in a location that 
enables lots of 3 point Qs the vast majority of the time.  If we are 
someplace else ...we're competing against whoever is in a reasonably 
similar situation ...powerwise ..locationwise ..and against our own 
goals ..whatever some certificate or plaque is in the picture or not. 
 Similar situations for every other contest.  The only thing I ever 
ask for ..regarding rules ...is that they be as clear as possible 
..and that if technology changes drastically ..that they be adjusted 
to account for that.  The rest of this seems to be "How many angels 
can dance on the head of a pin" level stuff. 
 
73
Steve KL7SB
 
p.s.  I think that working oneself from a remote location in a contest 
.is probably legally acceptable ....ethically questionable ..but 
guaranteed to grow hair on the palm of the hand one sends with. 
 
 

On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:01:42 -0800, Jim Brown  wrote:

       On Wed,2/24/2016 10:45 AM, Ken Widelitz wrote:
> The second sentence quoted above makes no sense. Contest rules have 
> no relationship to dollars. 

Rules have a VERY strong relationship to where you live, and you stated
that you can choose where you live. Look, for example, at the most
recent ARRL DX CW scores at the entry of N6WM from superstation N6RO. 
That's the top score from the west coast, yet it's about 25% of the
average multi from W1/W3. 

73, Jim K9YC

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