Eric you said: ""Allowing single operator stations to have more fun in
contests seems
beneficial to our beloved sport. And encouraging part-time participants
to operate more of the contest also seems beneficial.""
Those were the same kind of excuses that were used in the early days of the
DX Packet Cluster and look at that hornets nest now. Any outside system
being utilized whether it be clusters or scoreboards or whatever will always
provide an unfair advantage. Like the Cluster I can assure you it will not
be policed and some stations utilizing it to their advantage will not report
its use.
Now before I get beat up to badly I realize the overwhelming majority of
contesters are upstanding and play by the rules. It's always that bad apples
that spoil it. Eventually like the Clusters the good guys will tired of no
action against the bad guys and then just like the clusters even the most
honest upstanding guys will begin to sneak a peek once in awhile. I'm all
for modern technology but if it's not going to be policed and controlled
then it will also be another Cluster.
73
MAL
N7MAL
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Scace K3NA
To: live@cqww.com
Cc: Cq-Contest
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 16:30
Subject: [CQ-Contest] real time scoreboards
Thanks for polling the contesting community before taking a decision
on whether to classify the use of real-time scoreboards as "outside
assistance" for single ops.
Having used the real time scoreboard in some contests this year, I
can report that:
1. It was fun! I enjoyed the heightened sense of competition, trying
to catch up to the station just ahead of me in the standings and to stay
ahead of the person just behind me.
2. In a contest where I was making a part-time effort, the real time
scoreboard encouraged me to participate longer in the contest.
3. As an experienced contester, the availability of band-by-band
snapshots had no material impact on my score or strategy.
Allowing single operator stations to have more fun in contests seems
beneficial to our beloved sport. And encouraging part-time participants
to operate more of the contest also seems beneficial.
An experienced, top-tier SOAB contester will already know on which
bands she should be operating to maximize his score. The real-time
scoreboard will not give her significant new data that she would not be
able to determine (more efficiently) on her own.
For an operator new to the sport, real time scoreboards seem to offer
more encouragement, minute-by-minute, to continue competing against
other operators at about his skill level.
Overall it seems to me the benefits of a laissez-faire policy seem to
outweigh any disadvantages for the SO-unassisted category.
Furthermore, why rush to kill or reclassify a new-born idea at this
early stage, when little actual experience has been gained? As
real-time scoreboards develop over the next few years, the Committee can
re-evaluate their impact (if any) on the SO-unassisted category.
73,
-- Eric K3NA
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