Hi Victor I think it's more about whether or not the *published presence* on a website of a 'leader board' encourages people to be more competitive (with all the bad behaviours that competitiveness brings out in some people) and therefore leads to bigger and nastier pileups as some folks have to beat the next guy no matter what.
Personally I'm not sure that they do since a**holes behave true to type anyway. Some people in this group have had Ham licences since Adam was a lad. If you listen to some of them around here you'd think that their licence was personally signed by Queen Victoria. I'm a relative newcomer only having been on the air for 22 years but in that time it feels like pileups have become bigger and more aggressive. It feels like operating standards have fallen (cue reprise of code vs no-code debate) and the amount of deliberate QRM has increased - particularly in Europe. Sometimes I'm really glad that there's 20 miles of water between England and mainland Europe so that at least I can disown Europe. How does the situation look from the other end of Europe? Do you feel like the bands have become like a combination of Fraggle Rock and the Chimps' Tea Party at London Zoo? Cheers Dave SM/G0OIL ----- Original Message ----- From: Victor Goncharsky US5WE <us...@bk.ru> Sent: 06 June 2012 19:02 To: dx-chat@njdxa.org <dx-chat@njdxa.org> Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Leaderboards - good or bad? I was making such bands/modes tables filling them by hand long before the computer era. Still doing this for major DXpeditions and really surprised of the public excitement of such a simple thing. Will someone prohibit me to print this SSB/CW 160-10 form for the next major operation? NO. Will someone prohibit me to work the above mentioned operation on the bands I need? Again NO. So, what's this discussion is all about? On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 21:28:32 -0000, Joe Subich, W4TV <w...@subich.com> wrote:> > > > On 6/5/2012 4:39 PM, Ryan Jairam wrote: >> I don't really buy that argument. In the last days of a DXpedition, >> they're usually begging. > > You obviously did not attempt to work 7O6T on RTTY. The Europeans > monopolized the few available RTTY band slots and even chased 7O6T > off RTTY many times in the last days of the DXpedition. > > Quite simply, Leaderboards as currently structured encourage rampant > DX Hoggery and have no place in radiosport. > > 73, > > ... Joe, W4TV > > > On 6/5/2012 4:39 PM, Ryan Jairam wrote: -- 73 Vic US5WE/K1WE (UW5W in VHF contests) KN29AU UARL VHF committee Chairman, UARL Lvov Branch "LKK" Moderator, UARL VHF portal http://www.vhfdx.at.ua DXCC card checker in Ukraine --------- Zorg: If you want something done, do it yourself. Yep! ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe or subscribe to this list. Please send a message to imail...@njdxa.org In the message body put either unsubscribe dx-chat or subscribe dx-chat This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org -----------------------------------------------------------
