A private email I just received, said, in part: "I think that making logs public is a terrific deterrent against cheating... We already have a instances where highly questionable behavior has been di
A recent post said, in part: < snip > Since IMO cheating is quite widespread < snip > Who is cheating? When? How often? Exactly how are they cheating? And if "they" are cheating, why haven't they bee
I do not deny that some contesters try to stretch the envelope, and that some cheat. This is nothing new... remind me to tell you sometime about the first time I met a certain well known contester. B
Interesting that a tool that was developed by some contesters for some contesters, a tool that is now available for use by all contesters, is now so widely despised that some contesters no longer wan
Forgive the obvious question, but if the contest is fabulous, what needs improving? --Original Message-- From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of
Let alone that many amateurs use PO Boxes for their legal addresses, which may be many miles away from their home QTH's (especially if the box is located in the area they work in, not live in). Not o
Well Dave, with all due respect... I think the Shakespeare gambit ("Thou doth protesteth too much!") can apply to certain people on both major sides of this argument. Quite a few, in fact. IMHO, thou
Hi Barry, BTW, nice finally working you in the contest lack weekend. This winter marks my first semi-serious effort at 160 operating, and every Q is a bonus. It's also giving me some ideas on how to
Ah, but that is one of the problems Tom. Cabrillo is A standard. But not THE standard. I seem to recall a lot of shouting when Cabrillo was announced, developed, and finally introduced... and even im
Oh, that's easy... "Excuse me, how do you get to Carnegie Hall?" "Practice, practice, practice!" Even the most naturally skilled of us needs to operate to hone our abilities and keep them at peak per
I think it may depend on the contest Mike. I know quite a few guys who run mobile in the Pa QSO Party, and very few have a laptop in the vehicle. Quite a few used to just xerox, er, photocopy their h
As I recall, at the time the WARC bands were announced (or shortly thereafter) the IARU and other amateur radio organizations strongly suggested in effect that no existing contests add the new bands
"If you are not cheating, I see no reason to get up in arms about it." Indeed. But consider: If we are not cheating, but it is implied that we are because of a difference of opinion or philosophy...
A very non-scientific poll. First I've heard of it... if you're going to cite this as a "fact" then it should be... dare I say it... OPEN and more people made aware of it? C'mon. The current survey o
So the long & the short of your reply is that if I object on philosophical grounds to open logs, for what I consider valid reasons, I therefore am enabling the cheaters and scoundrels? This, my frien
It's nice that Mike "suspects" that there are good reasons for open logs to exist. I'm with Hans on this one... I'd like to know what they are. And while that may not matter for a contest who's spons
Well, you do realize of course, it won't take many contest QSO's for the K5D team to "win" their DXCC entity. Maybe during the 48 hours of the ARRL DX Contest, CW, the Desecheo K5D operators will lim
I don't know what was more fun... working the 5A gang before the contest, or working them during the contest, a couple of years back! Somehow I don't think this is going to be a biggie to worry about
Well, what's the worst that can happen? They made a few contest QSO's after all, send in their log, and win their DXCC entity? Actually, the station sent 599 K, which is exactly what hundreds of the
Cheating? Who accused him of cheating? No, I read the information from K1TTT, and the follow-up from the boys in Brazil as more on the lines of recognizing that an error had occurred, and bringing it