[VHFcontesting] Post-Contest Grid Square Queries

[George Fremin III]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 04:44:01PM -0400, Chet, N8RA wrote:

> But I agree with your point on the ethics of contesting. Some public
> discussion of the issues and fine points helps not only the specific
> instance but a wider audience realize and understand them. Last contest
> there was mention of the misuse of scheduling and chat networks during the
> contest by Single Ops.
> 
> Toward better, cleaner, competition,

Yes.

Sunlight is a good thing.

Recently on another list there has been a discussion of 
ethics and rules and such.  One of the posts was from K5ZD 
who had just given the contest ethics talk at the Contest University.

He said:

	In my contesting ethics talk at Contest University, I
        suggested two points to keep in mind when considering pushing
	the envelope.  Would you be ok with what you are doing if it
	was made public?  Are you willing to live with the long term
	impact on your reputation if there is even an appearance of
	misconduct?

And W9SZ followed up with:

	There's a third questions I thought of.  It could be very
	telltale, actually. The question is "How do you feel about
	others doing the same thing?"

Food for thought.  

I have been thinking about contest rules and cheating and such
and I found a posting on the Internet that I found interesting
in the way that it parallels the fact that we do not have 
judges in our shacks during a contest it has to do with playing
chess over the Internet or via email or mail.

http://www.playchess.de/articles/1


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George Fremin III - K5TR
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