[CQ-Contest] Merging Social Media and Contesting

[contesting at w2irt.net]

Ed has it 100% right here. I'm good with innovation, but don't you dare
pretend to compete with folks who are keeping within both the letter and
spirit of the rules. I would strongly support the addition of an
unlimited/anything-goes class for such innovators and let them compete
against each other. But to allow these new technologies to compete with
traditional contest stations is a travesty in my book. 

Personally, I would like to see the contest committees from both CQ and ARRL
sit down, along with perhaps the WWROF, and hammer out a new regulatory
framework for the major DX contests, taking modern technologies into
account. Redefine the categories and what level of assistance is permitted
in each; everything from a boy and his radio to full social media
interaction.

The bottom line is that I want to compete on a level playing field. I won't
be top-10 world in my lifetime, but I might be in the top-10 US and I'm
regularly top-5 in my division, section, or call area in the assisted
category, either SOAB-A/HP or M/S HP. My only assistance is the traditional
telnet cluster and perhaps one day my own on-site skimmer. No remoting of
any kind, etc. I'll happily compete with folks using similar technologies
but if you lump me in with high-end remote stations using social media then
my interest will wane. 

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GO FRC!
Peter, W2IRT

www.facebook.com/W2IRT

-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+contesting=w2irt.net at contesting.com> On
Behalf Of Edward Sawyer
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2020 6:37 AM
To: Sterling Mann <kawfey at gmail.com>; donovanf at starpower.net
Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Merging Social Media and Contesting

Sterling.  If you read through your own email, you have validated basically
all of Frank's violation list and then said well its all still okay.  Its
not okay.

And Ray does have responsibility for what is happening on his chat bar of
his live stream.  He can shit it off because it can't be controlled within
the rules.  But that would defeat the point of the social media interaction
wouldn't it.  And that the point.  Contesting is not social media gaming.
If some people want to promote in as "demo stations" like Ray is doing,
wonderful.  But its either a checklog or its a new category. 

Ed  N1UR