James,
You only missed one thing I could think of, it's FUN. There's a lot to be said
for the slower pace, being able to entice and encourage others in to
participating because it isn't like having to drive on the Autobahn with a Yugo
and just about everyone has six meters and two meters available in some flavour
.... less presure, less complaining ?
de KG6IYN
--- On Thu, 2/26/09, James Duffey <JamesDuffey@comcast.net> wrote:
From: James Duffey <JamesDuffey@comcast.net>
Subject: [VHFcontesting] Contesting Philosophy
To: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
Cc: "James Duffey" <JamesDuffey@comcast.net>
Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 7:25 PM
Ron - You wrote:
"... can someone tell me why the CQ Contest rules never seem to come
up for discussion on this list?"
Sure. It is only two bands, 6M and 2M. Both bands have the same point
value.
So, the multiplicative effect of multipliers from one band to another
does not occur significantly as there are only 2 bands involved, not
10 or 12. And the higher QSO points on the microwave bands are not
multiplied by large numbers of grid multipliers on the lower bands.
It is strictly a VHF contest. You don't need lots of microwave gear to
be competitive.
There are fewer participants so there are fewer people to complain.
Perhaps the fewer participants constitute the more hardcore VHF
contesters and hence they are happy to be out competing with the rules
that exist rather than complaining that someone who finished ahead of
them did so by exploiting loopholes in the rules.
The CQ contest is less important and hence people perceive that there
is less at stake and don't care so much?
The rules are simpler, more straight forward, all in one place,
published in a magazine, and hence there is less to complain about.
It is conducted by a for profit organization that has no motives other
than to sell magazines and web ads rather than a nonprofit
organization that feels it has a responsibility to make sure that it
is responsive to its members and whose members complain when they
don't get their own way. Plus the usual electro-political machinations
that, for good or bad, drive those involved in predominately volunteer
nonprofit organizations are missing from the sponsors.
Or some combination of the above. But I suspect that you knew most of
what I wrote. :^)= - Duffey
--
KK6MC
James Duffey
Cedar Crest NM
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