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Re: [CQ-Contest] How many hours do SOAB entrants actually operate?

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How many hours do SOAB entrants actually operate?
From: VR2BrettGraham <vr2bg@harts.org.hk>
Reply-to: vr2bg@harts.org.hk
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 03:47:30 +0000
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K9NW suggested:

And then one weekend a renegade "48 Hour Guy" with all his stacks and SO2R
and other evil gadgetry invades the category because he finds he can still
get his competitive fix and not have to kill himself in the process. And
then a couple of his peers join in the fun next time for the same reason,
and they begin to dominate the category. And then we're all back here after the contest complaining that "48 Hour Guy" shouldn't really be operating in the "24 Hour" category with his big station and that if you have "x" number
of elements on "x" number of bands you should enter in another class or
category or something because it's unfair.

As I said in one of a number of recent posts to this list that vanished like CQWW entries in the final results, go back to the way things were originally: no entry categories, just one for all.

Then no problems with figuring out which SOs were really MO, or who runs an Italian/Russian/Thai 200 watt amplifier & claims LP. Likewise SO/SOA - becomes a non-issue.

All this unverifiable & therefore unenforceable category stuff should NEVER have been adopted in the first place.

73, ex-VR2BG/p.

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