I also find W2WN's rancor on this topic to be a bit unrealistic. I'm hard pressed to think of any other competition with such open global participation as radiosport that doesn't involve at least as
On the contrary, Ron ... I'm not trying to stifle your right to express your opinion at all. I simply don't agree that contest activity and the results thereof are a privacy issue, and it seems to me
Again, I am not advocating that UBN reports be made public ... mostly because I don't see where they would actually add much to clarity and integrity in radiosport. However, by its very nature radios
How is your post not as much a part of the debate as any other has been? The complete last half of your post is your expressed opinion on the topic. Dave AB7E ________________________________________
WAY more than 0.1% of contesters are doing *something* dishonest. It's human nature, and anyone who thinks otherwise is simply kidding themselves. W0MU's post lists common examples, and I could proba
That statement, true as it may be, seems to me to be a gross misdirection. In essence you are saying that, for you at least and probably for many others, a ham radio contest is really not a competiti
The ARRL is hardly a sterling example of forthright and courageous adjudication. They are quite possibly the most conflict averse amateur radio organization on this planet, a good example being how t
I'll agree that someone in a foreign country using a contest callsign they don't deserve is probably beyond the ARRL's horizon of responsibility to monitor, but I don't need to be able to program a t
I live on a steep hillside that rises over 2,000 feet above me in less than a mile away to the west. Eastward I get terrific takeoff angles because the slope is downhill in that direction, but HFTA t
Calling NS3T a joke seems unwarranted to me. It's not "copy/paste journalism" if the original error came from the contest sponsor, as it appears to have in this case. LZ9W does indeed show as multi-o
It has been like that forever among contesters. People are more willing to ignore a confirmed cheat than they are the presumably honest mistake of a useful contest resource. An error outside of a con
That seems rather silly and convoluted to me. The whole concept of assisted vs unassisted is based upon whether a single operator performed all operating tasks (finding the station, copying the infor
Let me see if I understand this correctly. You spend a few hours per year operating a contest and submitting your results, some of which undoubtedly has errors despite your best personal efforts. How
That is simply not true. For almost all contests (there may be one exception where the rules simply outlaw CW Skimmer by name ... I don't remember for sure) you can use CW Skimmer in "Blind" mode and
Go ahead and be bored if you prefer, Jorge, but the fact of the matter is that those folks here who publicly seek clarity on the rules or want to know for sure whether or not this or that practice is
Just curious ... do you use Super Check Partial or Call History Files when you contest? Do you use a logger that automatically inserts the zone or other exchange info for you? Does your logger automa
What makes anyone think that cheating in this manner is limited to publicly available SDRs? I could set up a receiver/computer in Europe and stream the result over the internet to my QTH in the USA.
Check out this advertisement for a Henry 8K-Ultra from W7RF's Radiodan website ( http://www.radiodan.com/Henry/hf_price98.htm ) <quote> Beautiful condition and ready for the contest season! You know
Actually, Hans, that's pretty much the attitude I was trying to combat when I wrote my original post about the ad for the 8K-Ultra. I really wasn't trying to focus attention on the hardware side of t
Hi, Tom. I have no first hand knowledge of such a setup, but these were my thoughts after watching the ZX5J video. I assume that having antennas simultaneously pointed in four directions means that t