Hi Folks,
February QST is out and the IARU 97 result showed up. Look at the Multi
Single Top Ten, and once again the results appear far out and away of
range .... The H22A guys finally broke the EUROPEAN supremacy, but they
need to be in a 5 points/QSO place to win, the HA crew has only 1
million point less with around +900 QSO. The European leadership score
is beyond any reasonable number. This is my point of view, but I really
think that the results clear demonstrate that IARU is one on the most
cheatable contest.
I don't want criticize the ARRL Contest staff, although their main work
is to collect the logs, call cross-checking , verify the unique, verify
the rules complaint's , apply the penalties and create the score list. (
I have visited ARRL HQ some years ago and see all the heavy duty work to
get the most accurate possible results, NF1J explained that he spend a
lot of time to input paper log, several thousand QSO's, may be he his
not so busy in this latest e-mail log era ).
I will point out what the published scores showing. Over 3500 QSO are
quite difficult to reach from Europe, it means an average QSO/h > 149 a
very hard target to obtain in only 24 hours. Admit that 150 QSO/h are
sometime reachable, but > 4700 QSO in only 24 hour is really an index
that something must be wrong. Are there someone that really believe that
an EU station can have a sustained rate of 196 QSO/h ?? ( Including
peaks of 300 QSO/h , 10 min rules and QSY's into the respective mode
portion band )
Even operating from P5 you can't work in 24 hour, with one signal on one
band, more that 4700 QSO's , high claimed contest stations,as ZD8, P4,
HC8, IG9, EA8, 9M8, ZX0, cannot maintain such rate in a WW Contest, why
some Europeans station can overcoming these guys only in the IARU
Contest ???
I guess there is something we need to learn, possibly we misunderstood
something about the IARU rules ?
These are some personal consideration about this situation:
The Participants :
The number of participants in the IARU Contest can't be compared with
that one of a CQWW. A greater number of log's and multipliers
characterizes the CQWW weekend, so, a very high participation to justify
the high QSO number is not acceptable.
Propagation / Score
The IARU score points, with the 5 point cross-continent QSO, increase
the search of intercontinental QSOs, the season period is not the best
for any band, being the worst possible from Europe, concerning the low
bands propagation. The most profitable period in a 24 hour, based on the
statistical analysis of our last 4 years multi/single logs, is no more
than 50% of the time, at least in such a low sunspots cycle period.
10 Minutes Rules
The 10 min rule is more rigid that the 10 min WWDX rule, it doesn't
allow to work a new multiplier in another band, without staying a least
10 min on the band, so to compliant the rules, a M/S can have as many
station as you want that search mult's, but when one is effectively
worked it's obligatory to stay on that band for at least 10 min. As
everyone know this is a very high time consuming procedure, frequently
you work the mult in the first 2/3 min of the 10 min period and the rest
of the time is used cqing with doubtful high rate answers or S&P.
Mixed mode
This is the key of the black hole, IARU is the only one all band mixed
mode Contest, excluding minor and national Contest, and this unique
feature could be that one to utilize for winning, I suppose.
Simultaneously SSB and CW signals could really boost the QSO number,
obviously it's breaking the rules point 5b, and could be difficult to
check, as it's difficult to setup up, and need a postcontest log wizard
arrange. It's not so difficult to setup when a multi/multi arrangement
is available, in 500m (or....within property limits) it's easy to
realize two or more all band stations and with segmented band filters
(or large properties) and synchronizing the band change to work CW and
SSB simultaneously. To catch them you need to search them in both mode
and follow them during the whole Contest, but this could be difficult,
for the Europeans another Europeans are frequently inaudible, due
propagation constriction, and more important , who may interested in
this search in busy himself in the contest !!!
The postcontest arrange need a Computer wizard guy , that with such as
cut and paste technique create a full compliant rules LOG.
The Rules
I had exposed some years ago to K1ZZ, present K3EST , during the major
German hamfest , some doubts about IARU scores, suggesting some minor
change at the 10 min rules to avoiding this sort kind of uncertainty :
1) Adding a 10/15 min rule between the two mode, so no more log with
subsequent 15 min SSB 15 min CW QSO.
2) Allowing to work NEW mult without 10 min constriction as in WWDX
Contest.
The final, and main, suggestion was to cross-check also the QSO time,
with a tolerance of no more that 3 min, disallowing in this way, the
postcontest log corrections to move QSOs around the Log in order to
accommodate other QSOs, or hide band change.
This are my view points, it want to be a starting point , I don't want
criticize anyone, I respect the Contest Committee and all the Contest
participants, but I want to understand, if I am in the wrong part of the
world, well this is an answer, if I am not so organized, well I will
try, If have not read accurately the rules well I will look at them
carefully, but I am looking for an answer, without it I am not motivate
to enter again this year, when I start the Contest and I know that some
one is doubling my QSO from the first minutes, how I can really get fun
????
Just about the recent cheating message I agree with NH7A regarding the
need to start to publishing the log on the net and let other people see
what they are up to.
After all IARU activity is growing every year, next high solar sunspot
number can make Contest more fun , so I think that the Contest cumminity
need a clear answer to these question.
If the IARU Contest will be used as referee contest in the WRTC2000,
that Committee must have in mind that for the last five years the IARU
results didn't had reflected the operator capabilities.
Follow the Top Ten Multi Op Box of the last 5 years, as you can see the
Hungarian, Ukranian and EU Russia boys had fantastic propagation,
probable there is the July hole that add +100 solar sunspot in that
particular area of the world !!!
Last but not the least , look at this interesting page, "Contester's
View of Dayton 1997" by K1DG, and read carefully the KR2Q and K3EST CQWW
techniques to break the rules.
http://www.yccc.org/Butt/dayton97_k1dg.htm
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IARU 97
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Call
Score
QSO
Mult
Point
QSO/h
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H22A
4.883.725
3.821
275
4,65
159
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HG1S
3.847.788
4.713
252
3,24
196
Op's
HA1TJ, DAC, AH, AR, AV, DAI, BN
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RZ3Q
3.191.070
3.582
259
3,44
149
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EU8T
3.019.710
3.698
255
3,20
154
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HG6N
2.893.440
3.776
240
3,19
157
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UR4E
2.863.686
3.617
216
3,67
151
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IR4T
2.200.656
2.634
228
3,66
110
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UU5J
2.189.734
2.609
254
3,30
109
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OT7T
2.165.400
2.366
225
4,07
99
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RZ9AZA
2.077.208
2.320
196
4,57
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IARU 96
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Call
Score
QSO
Mult
Point
QSO/h
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HGM1H
3.354.250
4.303
250
3,12
179
Op's
HA1RH, AR, DAC, DAE, DAI, TJ
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UU5J
2.058.308
2.510
266
3,08
105
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RN4W
1.911.832
2.269
248
3,40
95
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RU6LWZ
1.556.784
2.230
228
3,06
93
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RZ3Q
1.480.414
2.515
194
3,03
105
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RA6Y
1.478.000
2.452
200
3,01
102
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IR4T
1.410.768
2.062
194
3,53
86
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C40M
1.389.280
1.932
152
4,73
81
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SL0CB
1.260.290
1.914
193
3,41
80
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RK9AWN
1.259.881
1.256
99
10,13
52
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IARU95
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Call
Score
QSO
Mult
Point
QSO/h
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UU5J
2.702.612
2.976
257
3,53
124
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RS3A
1.965.816
2.366
228
3,64
99
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IR4T
1.937.796
2.507
204
3,79
104
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RY6Y
1.790.712
2.486
231
3,12
104
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RK9XWH
1.481.385
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RU3A
1.466.630
2.054
199
3,59
86
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RW0A
1.400.352
1.754
174
4,59
73
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WX0X
1.379.856
1.924
204
3,52
80
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HG5M
1.359.299
2.057
193
3,42
86
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RU9D
1.272.556
1.706
166
4,49
71
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IARU 94
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Call
Score
QSO
Mult
Point
QSO/h
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HG73DX
3.237.894
3.713
253
3,45
155
Op's
HA1AH, DAC, DAE, TJ, TW, DAI
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UU5A
2.552.256
2.923
252
3,46
122
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UT7E
2.300.400
3.252
200
3,54
136
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IR4T
1.792.635
2.391
195
3,84
100
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RU6L
1.777.888
2.185
220
3,70
91
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C49C
1.662.880
2.316
158
4,54
97
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T9A
1.580.128
2.790
176
3,22
116
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RW6AWC
1.576.274
2.058
238
3,22
86
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W5WMU
1.534.250
1.963
170
4,60
82
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OK5W
1.443.224
2.102
178
3,86
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IARU 93
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Call
Score
QSO
Mult
Point
QSO/h
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HG73DX
3.195.000
3.862
250
3,31
161
Op's
HA1AH, DAC, DAE, TJ, TW, DAI
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C49C
2.077.507
2.943
149
4,74
123
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LZ5W
1.737.120
2.425
231
3,10
101
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UY7E
1.683.045
2.833
189
3,14
118
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R6L
1.667.160
2.362
220
3,21
98
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UZ6AXS
1.581.085
2.333
209
3,24
97
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9A1A
1.470.084
2.464
154
3,87
103
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UR8J
1.416.780
2.332
204
2,98
97
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US7I
1.138.080
2.401
160
2,96
100
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IR2W
1.060.785
2.015
165
3,19
84
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73 de Fabio I4UFH
I4UFH one of IR4T, IG9R, 5H1FS, KF6FBE
e-mail : i4ufh@contest.dsnet.it
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