[UK-CONTEST] BERU moving bonuses

[QUENTIN COLLIER]

Largely agreed Clive. 

Likewise, I personally would never dream of asking a DX station to QSY: but I think it's all a question of how busy the pileup is. Arguably it's not unreasonable to ask a DX station to QSY provided it isn't going hammer and tongs. But the requester has to accept it with a good grace if the DX station declines - and all did so in the case of BERU this year. Another sobering that had never occurred to me until this weekend is that the DX station has as duty to obey the principle of utilitatianism (a la Jeremy Bentham?) of the greatest good for the greatest number - and of course that's very much a judgement call!

Finallly, to put his into perspective quantitatively, I would estimate that we QSYd to other bands at request no more than a dozen times, and declined to do so (all early on as I recall) no more than 4 or 5 times. 


73,








Quin


----- Original Message ----
From: Clive Whelan <clive.whelan at btinternet.com>
To: UK Contest Reflector <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, 16 March, 2009 6:10:36 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] BERU moving bonuses

Quin- and also a private replier- thanks, that IS cricket. I am a fairly 
fierce competitor and neither give, nor ask for, any quarter in a 
typical pile up. However there are some things I wouldn't do for an 
edge, and one of them is asking a DX station to QSY in the face of an 
existing huge pile up. The station in question could do this because he 
could break any pile up at almost any time he chose so to do.

It is a sobering thought that the only person who cares where you are 
placed in the final analysis is you yourself, so gaining an ultimate 
edge may owe more to ego tripping than anything else. Isn't it nice 
sometimes to take a stroll in the park!

73


Clive
GW3NJW

QUENTIN COLLIER wrote:
> Our thinking from GB5CC was that we were there to provide as many QSOs / bonuses for as many other stations as possible. In accordance with this principle, we declined requests to QSY to other bands early on when the going was thick and fast, but accdeded to them later on when the QSO rate had slowed down. 
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> 73,
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> Quin WRR
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> From: Clive Whelan <clive.whelan at btinternet.com>
> To: UK Contest Reflector <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Monday, 16 March, 2009 12:48:12 PM
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] BERU moving bonuses
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> Is it cricket to ask run stations to QSY leaving e.g. a big G pile up 
> behind? Rather, should I ask whether the run station should accede to 
> such a request since it is of little value to him?
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> I understand that they don't play cricket in other parts of the world 
> and expect underarm bowling in e.g. CQWW, but I wasn't expecting to get 
> a googly this weekend :-(
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> 73
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> Clive
> GW3NJW
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