[CQ-Contest] Some Observations

[Ria Jairam]

These days I would not put a newbie on CQ World War. I would instead direct
them to a smaller contest where we don't have this much disagreement. Then
again we do sometimes such as with the IARU HF championship which had
disagreement over the same issue - self-spotting and cheerleading.

Seems you can't escape.

Ria, N2RJ

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 12:33 PM, Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm just glad there is very little, if any, of this in VHF contesting.
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:32 AM, John Dorr <cqk1ar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > FWIW, I offer some observations as one of your humble moderators:
> >
> > 1) Contesting is supposed to be fun. The recent thread(s) on this channel
> > are anything but that. We have largely become a group of mean-spirited
> > curmudgeons firing one salvo after another at each other. This makes your
> > AR sad.
> >
> > 2) As a potential aspiring new contester, I would not walk but run very
> far
> > away from contesting after reading much of the email traffic on this
> > channel over the past few weeks.
> >
> > 3) Many of the posts on this channel have become personal. Tom and I have
> > deleted many for that reason. They often lack facts and are all-too-often
> > defensive.
> >
> > I am the first to applaud spirited debate. Frankly, what I've been
> reading
> > of late is an embarrassment to our sport. We should all be ashamed.
> >
> > Can I suggest you reboot and think two or three times before making your
> > next post? We're better than our current work product. At least, I'd like
> > to think so.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > 73, John, K1AR
> >
> > PS: The next forecasted sunspot peak is estimated to be in only 2905
> days.
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