I think this illustrates the risk of finger-pointing in such reports. Dave
is generally quite judicious in the comments he makes. It might be even
better if he just reported the data and dispensed entirely with anything
beyond the objective facts. If that were done, then everyone could draw
their own conclusions, and perhaps all the moaners about public lynching
would go off and find something else to complain about.
Just for fun, I compared last year's ARRL CW DX test results, as published
by ARRL, with last year's spotting report. 4 out of 6 stations that looked
like self-spotters did not submit logs. In one case where the log was
submitted, it seemed ambiguous to me. In the last case, a whopping
Multi-two score, a majority of the alleged self-spots were actually
cheerleading by a relative of one of the ops.
I think we have to take it as given that in cases like that, the ARRL log
checkers had Dave's report in hand as one of their checking resources. I'd
sure hate to have him deterred from doing the work necessary to provide it.
73, Pete N4ZR
>Not necessarily true. All users behind a single NAT will have the same IP
>address as far as the external network is concerned. The NAT network could
>actually be very big (ours at work is US-wide connected through a large
>VPN). So it is entirely possible that these are spots by different people
>in different locations.
>
>Of course this also applies to participants on different computers in a
>multi-multi, who are also probably using a single IP address behind a NAT.
>
>Having pointed this out, I'd say it doesn't look all that good for the
>spotters.
>
>Jack Brindle, W6FB
>
>-----Original Message-----
> >From: W0MU Mike Fatchett <w0mu@w0mu.com>
> >Sent: Mar 12, 2009 7:56 AM
> >To: 'Tom Osborne' <w7why@verizon.net>, 'CQ-Contest'
> <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> >Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] arrl dx ssb spotting report
> >
> >Three of them used the same Ip address and the other one was in the same
> >block.
> >
> >Which means the same person.
> >
> >
> >"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may
> >never get over." Ben Franklin
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
> >[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Tom Osborne
> >Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:13 PM
> >To: CQ-Contest
> >Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] arrl dx ssb spotting report
> >
> >Any body care to compute the odds of 4 different stations with the same
> >suffix doing 4 spots in a row? 73 Tom W7WHY
> >
> >
> >66.50.29.32 W0GHY-@ 1887 WP4U cq cq contest
> >66.50.29.32 WA7GHY-@ 1887 WP4U arrl test
> >66.50.29.32 W5GHY-@ 1887 WP4U arrl looking for westcoast st
> >66.50.29.64 W7GHY-@ 7283 WP4U arrl test
> >
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