Bruce consider this:
It's Sunday afternoon and I have put maybe 3 hours into the contest all
weekend, so I'm there but I'm not at all serious. However, I am curious
how
people are doing so I log on and check the current race results. Lo and
behold, N5TJ and N6TJ are neck and neck, way out in front of the rest of
the
pack.
Now Jeff is a great guy and he always helps me out when I'm trying
seriously.......
N5TJ? Nah he wins all the contests, he doesn't deserve to win, he is an
alien... and he doesn't drink that much.. much less pay for beers...
Im not calling him!
N6TJ, on the other hand, is so cheap that he wouldn't even buy
me a beer at Dayton last year....... Well he did send me the QSL for
ZD8Z in 160.....hmmmm let me think ....also, he may be a pilot for one
of my future flights... let me be good to him..
So guess what...I go hunt down N5TJ and QRM THE HELL OUT OF HIM....give
him all the BROKEN CALLS I CAN, but CALL N6tj WITH EVERY CALL IN THE
qrz.COM DATABASE ignore that other cheapskate.
This idea of having real-time displays of contest results is different
in
one very significant way from what was done at WRTC in OH. In that
case,
there wasn't enough information available to enable people to jump in to
aid
their friends. Here there is, and that makes all the difference. This
idea
would be one more big step in turning contesting into a popularity
contest.
That is also one of my biggest objections to the use of packet spotting
nets
during contests. They tend to turn it into a popularity game. The guy
with
the most spots wins, right? And it doesn't really matter where he gets
the
spots, as long as they keep coming all weekend and can pull in the
traffic.
That's NOT how the game is supposed to be played, IMHO.
What you are saying is not real... this is fatal attraction...
Bruce come on... this is not taking away the glory of WRTC...think of
popularity
As if you where in high school...at the end of the day most of them
werent the
Succesful ones...
Felipe NP4Z
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