[UK-CONTEST] Power Limitations

[Bob Henderson]

As I see it, contesting is simply about doing the very best you can within
the rules.

Bob, 5B4AGN



On 28 January 2012 14:01, Don Field <don.field at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, it's not quite so black and white David. You make the statement
> "contesting is about ..." but there are quite varying philosophies about
> what contesting is about.
>
> Bob HGN is taking the view (I believe) that contesting is about ranking
> operator skill and that, therefore, within sections it is necessary to
> level the playing field regarding equipment. This is exactly what the WRTC
> events, for example, attempt to do.
>
> But in practice, without the massive infrastructure of WRTC, it is
> well-nigh impossible to achieve that. In my view it isn't necessary because
> I believe that most contests are actually about much more than operator
> skill (even if we could define what that was) but is about pushing the
> envelope in terms of technology, location, or whatever is relevant within
> the rules as they are framed.
>
> Both views are valid - perhaps it behoves contest sponsors to set out what
> the purpose of their particular event is. That said, if it is purely to be
> an operator test, then lets take out the variability of propagation and run
> a PC simulation :-)
>
> Don G3XTT
>
>
>
> On 28 January 2012 13:51, David <g3yyd at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> > Quite frankly I find this thread a good laugh. On one side you have the
> > dumb
> > communists on the other side the wicked capitalists. We all know who won
> > that argument.
> >
> > Contesting is about capitalism not communism. It is about finding the
> best
> > way to do better than the next guy. Trying to be totally prescriptive is
> > not
> > possible. There is always away for one person to be better than another
> QED
> > trying to find a communist utopia will fail.  The capitalist way is to
> > minimise constraints so that better ways can be found so that skill and
> > technical competence will win out improving the lot for all of us rather
> > than the socialist ideology of levelling us all down to the lowest
> possible
> > common denominator.
> >
> > 73 David
> >
> >
> >
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