[PaQSO] CW: In-State versus Out-of-State

[Bill@ng3k.com]

On 17 Jul 2002 at 8:27, mjc5@psu.edu wrote:

> At 12:28 PM -0400 7/16/02, Bill@ng3k.com wrote:
> >
> >under-appreciated.  But, for future contests I think it makes
> >a good deal of sense to score in-state and out-of-state CW
> >entries separately.  If you don't, there's precious little
> >incentive for an out-of-stater to enter in the CW category.
> >Your chances of winning are close to nil.
> 
> 
>  Just as a balance, there are other reasons besides winning to 
> get involved in the QSO party. I'm in-state, and I don't stand much 
> of a chance of winning, but am still having a good time in the party. 
> And it needs to stay that way too, because the heavy hitters need 
> people to work to pile up the points! 8^)

Absolutely, people are different from one another.  And 
different people have different motivations for operating in 
PAQP or any other contest.  If someone doesn't particularly 
care about his final score or ranking that's fine.  But, it 
doesn't invalidate the motivations of those who do care. And 
this is a basic equity issue for those who do care about such 
things.  It's inequitable to score together those who have 67 
available multipliers and those that have 160 available 
multipliers.

Bill/NG3K