Rick, While I can appreciate the time you've put into your analysis, I have to sum it up as follows: - Because we cannot trust anyone to be honest, we all have to surrender to those few who cheat and
Charly, You've got a few years on me in this game, but I have been contesting for 40 years now, so I think I've got some "cred" when I generally disagree with your summary. I don't think there is nea
No, it means *you* have to make a QSO on another frequency. de W5OV "Once a station is required to QSY, that station is not allowed to make another QSO on the vacated frequency until or unless at lea
Glenn, No flames necessary. The problem here is not that your opinion doesn't matter. The problem is that there are many others who love SS as it is. Changing it to be a contest where you work people
A lot of this seems to be the Skimmer/RBN network reporting the station the runners are working. Probably not anyone cheating in the manner you describe. I found this a LOT. (Among all the other bust
K3TN said: "The accuracy of the spots coming from the RBN are generally higher than those coming from human beings." I don't know if that summary is correct and my gut feel is that it's not. What's t
Mario, Your analysis is not correct. It has nothing to do with EK3LR spots as I would not have seen them. Locally, this is blocked from the K3LR system and we don't see them or send them out. It is t
Shane, The RBN system is not the "system of record" for contest adjudication. Thank goodness for that. W5OV _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesti
Add the 20 EK1LZ spots to all the others and it becomes a big problem. 20 bad calls each spotted 20 times is 400 bad spots. When you look at the problem collectively, it becomes more apparent as to t
First of all, I suspect there are far more than 400 errors out of 1 million spots. The % is definitely far higher than .04%. I did my time with this error-prone RBN by clearing the bad spots from the
" During a contest it really doesn't help if a bad spot goes out and then 10 people either send out announces or odd new spots to chastise the mis-spotter." I have to disagree with this. If the perso
It should. If you want it, dial up 5, 10, 15 or 20 MHz. W5OV _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/list
The survey is to collect opinions on this and other questions. Complete the survey and make your opinion count! 73, W5OV Hi, I just took the CQWW survey, and one question in particular sparked a furt
Tom, I would have to ask you what your motivation is in asking the question. Are you thinking there would be an "upside" to no one using cluster spots? What would it be? And of course, how would you
Ed, This is some thought-provoking commentary - thanks! I understand your premise, but I think we have to keep in mind that the universe of cheaters is just a small fraction of those who are serious
Anyone can participate in the survey. Dear Contester, The CQ WW DX Contest Committee invites you to take a short survey to share your feedback on the contest. Your answers will help us improve the co
Not sure how you would conclude that, but the idea is to take it only one time. The CQ WW DX Contest Committee invites you to take a short survey about the contest. Your answers will help us improve
Ron, The place you lose me is when you claim that a contest log contains "personal or private information". I just don't follow this logic at all. What "specific personal information" would otherwise
Ron, I guess we have gone over this before, but I still don't see any personal information being requested or required in any contest logs. If you don't want your secondary address or station locatio
Scott, Good question. The simple answer is that it allows anyone to see what is in the log, and that there is no funny business on part of the contest sponsor in manipulating the results to the benef