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IOW, the competition would continue, just in a different way. But the
average operator would still not be able to beat the big guns, because
the true competitors would still have whatever advantages
were to be had.

And wailing and knashing of teeth would still be heard throughout the "Land of
Average".

"Average operators" (those who voted for Diana Moon Glompers) would cry
"unfair".

Let's just take one real-life example, not a strained speculation. SO2R
(SingleOp2Radio operating style) is a developed skill (not a technology). It
takes work to perfect, but once mastered it dramatically tilts the field in
favor the operator who uses it. Join the CQ-Contest email reflector, and
mention you'll be operating "SO2R" in SS CW next November. The "average
operators who want rules to level the field" will rise up bemoaning the
"unfairness of it all" and "there ought to be a rule".

If radiosport contesting (the last great hope of saving ham radio, IMNSHO) is to
live up to it's potential to advance the state of the radio art, then we need to
structure contest rules which encourage and nurture skill and technology
developers, and do not reward "average" operators or "average" stations.

73, de Hans, K0HB