Thank you very much for your opinion Mike. You have hi-lited the problem very
well. The rule of the land today is anyone can break/bend any rule as long as a
justification can be dreamed up. You are clearly saying if you are not
officially in the contest you don't need to follow the rules of the contest.
Amazing convoluted logic...
Here is rule 3 for Stew Perry:
""3. Categories: Single operator or multi-operator. Remote or packet
spotting shall not be used. All transmitting and receiving antennas
used must be within 100 km of each other.""
It clearly says no packet spotting, It doesn't say it's OK to spot if you are
not actually in the contest. At some point the contest rules must mean
something. For those who were not aware of the rules several times
announcements were made on the cluster system. Here's just one :
""17 Dec w1to (1833Z) : Stew Perry rules don't allow packet""
Maybe 1 or 2 of the guys didn't know the rules of the contest but guys like
K1TTT, who was probably the worst offender, is very well aware. K1TTT has made
it very clear, on this mailing list, he will not, and does not, support any
effort to stop/curtail spots in any contest, obviously including contests that
specifically don't even allow spotting.
There is obviously no solution to this as long as guys make lame, yes lame,
excuses and other guys blatantly, with malice, thumb their noses at the rules.
73
MAL N7MAL
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
http://www.ctaz.com/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
http://geocities.com/n7mal/
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today.
It's already tomorrow in Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Tope
To: N7MAL ; Barry
Cc: cq-contest@contesting.com
Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2005 8:49
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Log checking questions
----- Original Message -----
From: "N7MAL" <N7MAL@CITLINK.NET>
To: "Barry" <w2up@mindspring.com>
Cc: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Log checking questions
> Barry I wasn't going to send the email below but because of what is
> happening on the cluster this evening I decided to go ahead and send it.
> Stew Perry is one contest that expressly prohibits using packet. Yet my
> screen is full of 160 Stew Perry spots including spots for K9DX. I'm going
> to say it again since no can or will control the packet problem then just
> open it up as a 'free-for-all' for anyone and everyone.
> 73
>
Mal,
How do you know that the people posting the spots are planning to enter
the Stew Perry contest? In any given contest, there are people who are
just handing out QSO who don't plan to send in a score. They can do
whatever they want.
Mike, W4EF...............................
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