That statement, true as it may be, seems to me to be a gross
misdirection. In essence you are saying that, for you at least and
probably for many others, a ham radio contest is really not a
competition ... that you couldn't care less where you place or whether
anyone else who places higher than you does so fairly or not. That's
fine, and it actually describes me in many instances, but it ignores the
fact the INTENT of the event is for it to be a serious and honest
competition ... and most importantly, that there are many participants
who treat it exactly as such no matter where they expect to place. On
those few occasions that I might run a local 10K race I don't expect to
achieve even a mildly respectable time, but I still strongly prefer that
anyone who beats it does so without taking a shortcut.
Pretending it isn't really a competition is the ostrich way out.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 8/19/2011 1:23 PM, Radio K0HB wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gilbert
>
>
>> What percentage of the population of any city in the world would
>> remain civil and honest if there were no police? What percentage
>> of the people or companies in the world would file honest tax returns
>> if there was no oversight and no penalties for fraud? What percentage
>> of the people in the world violate drug or morality laws? And those
>> are all situations with serious welfare and social consequences.
> Yes, they are, and they affect the real lives of real people.
>
>> Compare that to a ham radio contest .......
> Which consists of a world-wide population of perhaps less than 5,000
> hobbiests on any given weekend, playing electronic splatball with RF, an
> activity which has no welfare or social consequences at all outside that
> tiny universe of players, and very little consequence even there.
>
> It seems to me that the incidence of "cheaters" is greatly overstated, and
> that 99.9% of us could REALLY not care less..... we're just taking time
> away from our real lives to play with our radio. Whether some guy in Italy
> or New Jersey runs 5watts or 5kilowatts is a matter between him and his
> conscience and has no impact at all on my enjoyment of the weekend. I'm
> just trying to see how many splats I can make.
>
> 73, Hans, K0HB
>
>
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