[UK-CONTEST] Contesting is unfair.

[Nubsey G0VDZ]

Hi all, I have been following this thread, and have found peoples comments, 
shall we say interesting.
 Most contests seem to have a reasonable range of catagorys. Some don't. In 
AFS top dog wins. But most have a set of classes in the contest.

 I wonder how many read the rules of a contest and use them to there 
advantage!!
 There is a comment that someone with thier car cannot beat a racing car. 
Let me design the track and I will beat Louis Hamilton in his  F1 McClaren 
in my beat up old London Taxi.
 Find out what your qth is good at. Mine seems to be very good at QRP style 
contests. Power is not that great here.
 That is why I sometimes enter as a qrp station. Good fun and a good result 
at the end of it.
 So the moral of the story is. Contesting is lots of things to lots of 
people.
 So just get stuck in there and do your best.
 If you can only do two hours in a forty eight hour contest, then so be it. 
Thats the way the cookie crumbles.
 Have fun all.
Nubsey G0VDZ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom GM4FDM" <tom at gm4fdm.com>
To: "UK Contest Reflector" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Contesting is unfair.


> Its a plain fact of life that you can't compete.   Antenna and TVI
> restrictions dont allow me to compete
> in contests from my home QTH.   But then again my car cant compete in a
> <2 Litre class on the racetrack
> against a well honed and designed race car with an expert driver.
>
> Contesting is not all about winning its about having fun and working new
> Countries or States or Zones or whatever.
>
> I dont think its unreasonable for those who are successful to take a
> pride in their achievement.....
>
>
> Tom
> GM4FDM
>
> On 22/02/2011 12:41, Paul O'Kane wrote:
>> On 21/02/2011 23:18, Gordon Brown wrote:
>>
>>> Why on earth does any private individual operating from a suburban 
>>> location
>>> enter contests and compete against SO entries from commercially 
>>> supported club
>>> stations?
>> Gordon is correct - a private individual operating from
>> home cannot compete against against a SO entry from a
>> commercially supported club station, which G6PZ
>> undoubtedly is.  It's a fundamentally unequal contest.
>>
>> Now, before you all jump down my throat, I operated
>> SOAB HP in ARRL DX from a "club" station (EI9E), although
>> not one that is commercially supported, but ended up with
>> only 2000 QSOs.  Trouble is, I need my sleep - I can't
>> manage anything close to 48 hours.  I suppose I'm just
>> not a contender.
>>
>> Contesting at any level can be great fun. Unfortunately,
>> it is basically unregulated compared to most other
>> competitive sporting activities, and it is therefore
>> basically unfair.
>>
>> 73,
>> Paul EI5DI
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