"Until then I think the public outing of the perpetrators and life time
bans are sufficient. "
Yeah, that's actually the problem ... those don't happen. You see
people posting all the time about cheating instances that they are aware
of, yet they almost never post the callsign of the perpetrator. Hams
who do speak out against competitors they have reason to believe are
cheating are themselves publicly vilified (check back in the CQ-Contest
reflector archives and you'll see what I mean). A couple of years ago I
was looking at online pictures from Dayton that showed several hams
getting chummy with an east European ham that had just been disqualified
from one of the major contests instead of treating him as a pariah.
Hams caught blatantly cheating are allowed to withdraw their logs or
reclassify them instead of receiving a lifetime ban.
We get what we deserve.
Please don't get me wrong ... any contest that forces me to prove I
didn't cheat is a contest that I won't be entering. I'm not going to be
paying the penalty for someone else's bad behavior.
But we wouldn't need to even be discussing such things if we all simply
decided to excise the cheaters from our midst.
Dave AB7E
On 9/14/2012 8:16 AM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
When the prizes for a Amateur radio contest equate to serious cash you
can talk to me about video and audio recording and having to hire an
entire staff to make sure the rules are followed. Until then I think
the public outing of the perpetrators and life time bans are sufficient.
This is supposed to be for fun and to hone our message handling skills.
W0MU
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