Guys, you are all missing the best way to police the offenders. Work them but don't log them. If they see their UBN rate climbing, they will change their practice. After all, they are trying to win.
The reason I believe it is acceptable to work them and not log them is because if you run out of patience in waiting for them to sign, then you honestly don't know what to log. I believe its no diffe
Yuri, No that is not what I am saying. I am saying that the offender has not delivered on his obligation of the valid Q by not signing. And therefore while the Q is "loggable" it ultimately fails to
It is interesting that I hear all these great reports of how wonderful the (plug in your favorite radio here) receiver is for close channel separation and brick wall blah blah blah. Usually the vener
For the first time, I can say, that skimmer is finally making a noticeable impact out there. As likely the most active Vermont station out there this weekend, I was a needed "mult" for most. I notice
Always amazes me, the whole WRTC process. 50% of the participants have not qualified to go, yet go every event. Now these, non-qualifiers can operate the entire contest just by virtue of being long t
The rules in CQ WW state as "call sign alerting assistance of any kind" and "remote receivers" are not allowed. The rules of ARRL DX state as "use of spotting assistance or automated, multi-channel d
Yuri, I have to agree with Sean. Club callsigns do not give you privileges of the trustee by default. The trustee needs to be in the "control operator" mode in order for his/her privileges to dominat
In all of this discussion, there is the missing element that the callsign used, KP2MM, is a club call, and KV4FZ is the trustee. N2TTA was granted permission to use the callsign by the trustee. That
I personally think that 8 days is a much better balance for this. The Monday morning after the next weekend following the contest. I often end up travelling for business right after these contests be
I think it would be great to add more sections to Sweepstakes. There is no contest more boring on a Sunday afternoon than sweepstakes when you have all 80 in the bag. The best thing that could ever h
As might be expected, I have followed this topic for many years since, like Syl and Nate, I am a competitive LP contester. In order to see the reality here, you need to look way beyond the portion of
I must say that I was surprised to read this in such a prominent position of the article and with as much attention. I don't hear it often and wouldn't even make my top 10 list of pet peeves for cont
Interesting thread. I think Jim and Pete are both right. The key is to jostle and tale charge as necessary but not let the casual op even know what is going on. By definition, the casual op is oblivi
A score that would have ?blown away? the EU SOAB HP record is characterized as a ?"missing" scores were inadvertently left out of the results, but both of them were to be listed as Checklogs.? Are yo
4O3A reported an 11.6 M score in CQWW CW 2011 on 3830. The record at the time was I believe 8.5M Net. 4O3A is not listed anywhere in the results. But his score was submitted in the received logs. Ed
I think it is a good idea to get some opinion on the table for the next CQ WW Director. Unlike Yuri, I disagree with cranking down more than already suggested. I propose enforcing the tools already a
"Those ops in W1-2-3-4 that don't want distance based scoring?can't possibly know how boring a DX contest can be out west. Just look at how few W6/W7 logs with over 25 hours of activity have been rep
I am sure this has been asked before, but why is it that contest logs are not just automatically uploaded onto LOTW. The revenue is on the confirmation side so it would seem to be in the economic int
It seems to me that if LOTW focused on being a clearinghouse initially and a validator only when DXCC was applied for...it would be quite easy. Have CQ or ARRL submit only the "final logs" to LOTW. I