[CQ-Contest] New Category Suggestion

[Jukka Klemola]

It is a completely different ballgame if you build the station and operate
it compared to a team operation where someone builds the station and
someone else operates it.

Then there are stations where a team builds the station and owner operates.
And, there are stations built and owned by a team.

I would like the idea to bundle the owner operated stations together,
separate them from guest operated stations, where the operator has not
participated in making the station.


There is a clear benefit for the people who only learn how to operate.
They have been free from all other burden and they can concentrate to cover
only a fraction of skills of the owner+builder operated stations.


73,
Jukka OH6LI


2016-09-08 5:05 GMT+03:00 David Gilbert <xdavid at cis-broadband.com>:

>
> What difference does it matter who paid for the station?? Presumably
> you're concerned about some station owner having deeper pockets than you
> have, but I can't imagine the can of worms that you'd be opening if you
> tried to tier results by how much somebody paid for their station since
> that concern would have nothing to do with who actually paid for it.  Hams
> who contest from their own stations range from those who are unemployed to
> retired millionaires.
>
> My email client flagged your post as junk mail, by the way. Software keeps
> getting smarter and smarter ...
>
> Dave   AB7E
>
>
>
> On 9/7/2016 8:26 AM, Steve Sacco NN4X wrote:
>
>> In the spirit of transparency, I'd like to suggest a new category: Non
>> Owner Operated Station.
>>
>> This would include those doing contests from RHR and similar websites.
>>
>> This way, I'd know if I'm competing against Amateurs, or Corporate
>> stations, or, at very least, against stations where the sweat equity and $$
>> was provided by someone other than the op.
>>
>> Respectfully submitted,
>>
>
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