I agree with Peter that the sponsors of the major contests now need to get
together and hammer out some new rules/categories. Not just for this
current situation, but with a better eye on leveling the playing field(s).
This should include the overlays used by some contests for sub-categories.
For instance, the overlay for tri-banders and wires. I have only wire
antennas and I just cannot manage to rotate any of them like a tri-bander.
Those trees are just too heavy to move.
BTW, taking this up with your ARRL regional representation is short-sided.
They don't manage all contests. I think this forum is the right place for
the discussion, but only if all the sponsors are listening.
Are they?
___________________
Stan Zawrotny, K4SBZ
Real radio bounces off the sky.
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 12:56 PM <contesting@w2irt.net> wrote:
> Ed has it 100% right here. I'm good with innovation, but don't you dare
> pretend to compete with folks who are keeping within both the letter and
> spirit of the rules. I would strongly support the addition of an
> unlimited/anything-goes class for such innovators and let them compete
> against each other. But to allow these new technologies to compete with
> traditional contest stations is a travesty in my book.
>
> Personally, I would like to see the contest committees from both CQ and
> ARRL
> sit down, along with perhaps the WWROF, and hammer out a new regulatory
> framework for the major DX contests, taking modern technologies into
> account. Redefine the categories and what level of assistance is permitted
> in each; everything from a boy and his radio to full social media
> interaction.
>
> The bottom line is that I want to compete on a level playing field. I won't
> be top-10 world in my lifetime, but I might be in the top-10 US and I'm
> regularly top-5 in my division, section, or call area in the assisted
> category, either SOAB-A/HP or M/S HP. My only assistance is the traditional
> telnet cluster and perhaps one day my own on-site skimmer. No remoting of
> any kind, etc. I'll happily compete with folks using similar technologies
> but if you lump me in with high-end remote stations using social media then
> my interest will wane.
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> GO FRC!
> Peter, W2IRT
>
> www.facebook.com/W2IRT
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces+contesting=w2irt.net@contesting.com>
> On
> Behalf Of Edward Sawyer
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2020 6:37 AM
> To: Sterling Mann <kawfey@gmail.com>; donovanf@starpower.net
> Cc: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Merging Social Media and Contesting
>
> Sterling. If you read through your own email, you have validated basically
> all of Frank's violation list and then said well its all still okay. Its
> not okay.
>
> And Ray does have responsibility for what is happening on his chat bar of
> his live stream. He can shit it off because it can't be controlled within
> the rules. But that would defeat the point of the social media interaction
> wouldn't it. And that the point. Contesting is not social media gaming.
> If some people want to promote in as "demo stations" like Ray is doing,
> wonderful. But its either a checklog or its a new category.
>
> Ed N1UR
>
>
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