[VHFcontesting] Re: Good Buddy QSOs

Tree tree at kkn.net
Thu May 1 12:13:53 EDT 2003


> Perhaps peer pressue is a better enforcement mechanism.  If those who 
> become or benefit from captive rovers or good buddy QSOs come to see 
> that the contesting community considers their behavior unethical,
> maybe they'll change their behavior.
> 
> >             I would say that amateur radio contests have survived quite 
> > nicely for 60 or 70 years and there have always been some stations who were 
> > on to benefit another station, not their own. I don't know if this is 
> > "unethical" or not. 

Reading recent postings to this reflector do not support the statement 
that VHF contests are surviving.

The more rovers who try to work as many people as they can, the better
it is for the contest.

73 Tree N6TR / K7RAT
tree at kkn.net


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