Yes, and multi-ops will need dedicated social media coordinators....
Hiring a PR firm makes you assisted... :-)
73,
Mark, KD4D
On March 13, 2020 5:25:55 PM EDT, Richard F DDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
wrote:
>So now in order to be competitive in a contest, you have to have 1) a
>decent operator, 2) a good radio, 3) good antennas, and 4) a good
>social
>media presence. So do I engage a PR firm to spam Facebook and
>Instragram
>to juice the search results such that my FB feed appears first on the
>search results?
>
>73 Rich NN3W
>
>On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 4:22 PM N4ZR <n4zr@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Sterling mentioned one intriguing possibility, the use of delay.
>> Wouldn't a long-enough delay eliminate the complaint about soliciting
>> contacts by non-amateur means? I'm thinking in terms of an hour or
>two
>> (or 6) for HF contests.
>>
>> 73, Pete N4ZR
>> Check out the Reverse Beacon Network
>> at <http://reversebeacon.net>, now
>> spotting RTTY activity worldwide.
>> For spots, please use your favorite
>> "retail" DX cluster.
>>
>> On 3/13/2020 11:47 AM, Sterling Mann wrote:
>> > This discourse is giving me a lot of insight as to the future of
>amateur
>> > radio contesting.
>> > I forgot to mention: gaming has a thing called stream sniping,
>where
>> > opponents try to get an upper hand by watching the streams of a
>> competitor.
>> > It's just like peeking at player 2's screen on Nintendo64 007
>Goldeneye
>> > multiplayer. Streamers tend to put long delays or conceal revealing
>> > information to combat this. At eSport tournaments, stream sniping
>> > vehemently banned, and almost made impossible. Some teams have been
>> caught
>> > sneaking information about their opponents strategy or whereabouts
>to
>> > competitors remotely, via earpieces, chat programs, etc. New rules
>and
>> > monitoring were put into place.
>> >
>> >
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