[CQ-Contest] Proposal for keeping UNassisted category

[MARK BAILEY]

I enjoy single operator categories and do not want to see them eliminated.  In at least many contests, the Assisted/Unlimited classes evolved from MULTI-OPERATOR categories - this is true of many of the ARRL Contests for instance.

We should do what we, as a community, can to deter cheating and detect cheaters, but reducing the game to a single category where there is no cheating because there are no rules (Multi-Operator, High-Power, remote receivers, multi-channel decoders, ...) is not the answer.

73,

Mark, KD4D




> On March 10, 2017 at 8:49 AM Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw at verizon.net> wrote:
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> 
>  Wait...
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> So because of cheaters, you want us (the contest community, collectively, including sponsors, log checkers, and operators) to penalize those who (for whatever reason) prefer SO by making it less interesting to cheaters?  
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> Really?
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> 
> 73, ron w3wn
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> On 03/10/17, Mark van Wijk wrote:
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> Please do not spoil the fun of SO contenders by deleting the category for
> whatever reason.
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> Instead, change people behavior.
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> Make assisted/all allowed category MORE interesting for the cheaters:
> 
> - Raise the public recognition
> 
> - Better, more incentives
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> - Bigger prizes, larger plaques
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> 
> 
> On the other hand, lower the incentive for UNassisted, make it LESS interesting
> to participate for cheaters
> 
> - No incentives
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> - No plaques
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> - Lower public recognition
> 
> 
> 
> Since we cannot influence peoples own responsibility and personal merits of
> honesty and pride, we have to make SO less and Assisted more attractive.
> 
> We might as well let go of the materialistic and large public recognition for SO
> contenders. We can share recognition within our peer group, do not need the
> gold/wood.
> 
> Pride is in the accomplishment, the long road to and sharing knowledge/operating
> experiences with our peer-friends.
> 
> 73 Mark, PA5MW
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