Don't confuse ethics and morals.
Moral = Is it against the rules or not?
Ethical = Is it evil or not, whether or not the rules permit or prohibit it?
Anyone who would intentionally carry out the scenario below is downright
evil in my book.
Sometimes honest mistakes occur and I can understand someone forgetting to
log a QSO. I may have done it myself a couple times. I recall once I was so
wrapped up in going up the bands with someone that I forgot to log a QSO
and had to guess at the approximate time of the QSO later on when I
remembered that I forgot. (Does that make any sense?)
:-)
73, Zack W9SZ
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:43 AM, frank bechdoldt <k3uhf@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Here’s an ethics question based on the current rules
>
>
> There is no rule that prohibits one from forgetting to log a contact in the
> log they turn in or logging the contact wrong.
> When the partner of a QSO does not log a QSO it penalizes the other party
> beyond the value of the one unconfirmed QSO if it exceeds a certain limit.
>
> Why hasn’t anyone adopted a strategy of sending out stations that only logs
> certain QSOS for their team members while not logging QSOS for competing
> clubs?
>
> This would be an obvious path to victory and it is not unethical because it
> is not clearly prohibited in the rules.
>
> Imagine sending out a few portables or rovers into a competing club’s
> territory and doing damage to your neighbor’s score while inflating your
> team’s score.
>
> While some will surely say this is unsportsmanlike, others will reply who
> are we to define sportsmanship in this contest?
>
> Some will say its unfair and others will reply the people who have their
> logs docked as result of someone else’s actions can still just enter and
> have fun.
>
>
> After all this is not much different that what we rovers are talking about,
> but instead of docking our scores the team efforts diminish our efforts in
> a similar fashion this scenario would do to your home or club efforts.
>
> Send this on to the ARRL, maybe they will get it.
>
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