[CQ-Contest] SO Categories

[Mark Bailey]

Merging Assisted/Unlimited with multi-op?

73,

Mark, kd4d

On March 12, 2017 11:23:11 AM EDT, Saulius Zalnerauskas <ly5w.sam at gmail.com> wrote:
>5 days after contest is very long time.
>Best is 5 hours after contest.
>Or just immiadetly.
>Less cheaters.
>But i am for ONE SINGLE OP CATEGORY.
>NO ASSISTED.
>Sam LY5W
>
>
>2017-03-12 04:12  rašė:
>
>
>If CQWW merges SO and SOA then I'll pass on that contest.  And I'll
>also
>pass on the CQ magazine subscription as well.
>Same goes for any other contest that combines SO and SOA.
>
>I don't have a problem with operating unassisted, but I am puzzled as
>to
>why others want to eliminate the SO category. And I don't care if you
>operate assisted if that is what you like to do.  I have no interest in
>spots, skimmer, RBN, etc.  I have looked at them yes, but I am not
>interested in using those during a contest.
>
>"The heavy handed CC action to deter cheaters is driving participation
>away".  Yes Dale, me at least.
>
>"Then again I always got the sense that there was a movement to destroy
>the
>unassisted category for whatever reason".  Yes Ria there is, I see it
>too.
>
>And then there is the 5 day log deadline that I do not like. I was
>asked by
>LU5DX (I think) to submit my CQWW CW log a few weeks ago, several
>months
>after the contest ended. He said it would help with the log checking,
>so I
>obliged and sent it in 3 months or so late.  If sending a log in 3
>months
>late is okay with the log checker, then why the 5 day deadline?  Why
>not at
>least include the following weekend?  Or perhaps a 10 day deadline?
>
>73 Scott W2LC
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