This reminds me of a common practice in the local area in the early 60's,
2 of the local clubs were in cloise competion and it was a practice for
somone to take a mobile station down the road with a list of club members
and work the club FD station with the club roster then switch to another
band and do the same thing.
I don't know how long this went on but that is the story that went around.
This practice brought around rule changes that only one call could be used
from a station unless there were 2 licensed from that station.
Quack
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zack Widup" <w9sz@prairienet.org>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Unique perspectives
> Reminds me of a Field Day many years ago (> 30). I recall vividly when a
> couple of the FD ops in our group just picked another station at random,
> worked him, then sat and fed him about 15 QSO's using callsigns of other
> club members who weren't active during FD that year.
>
> This was in the days of paper logs and dupe sheets. I'm sure the logs of
> the other station were not scrutinized carefully.
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Warren C. Stankiewicz wrote:
>
>> > I know it's a horrible thing to think about, but what is to stop
>> > someone
>> > from just putting in a bunch of callsigns in their log to make it look
>> > like
>> > they worked a bunch of uniques. I know no ham would do that, but---
>>
>> This was actually tried once in an ARRL contest. I'm not going to say
>> which
>> one it was, or when, or who. However, they worked a large number of
>> uniques.
>>
>> And when this was discovered, we contacted the holders of the
>> questionable
>> calls, and asked if they had made the contacts or not. When they replied
>> in
>> the negative, the individual was referred to the ARRL Awards Committee,
>> who
>> voted to disqualify them.
>>
>> Which is the way it should be done, if it's going to be done at all.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Warren, NF1J
>>
>
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