Sorry I deleted the original message. But I believe the person wanted to know what incentive there was in being unassisted vs assisted. IMHO by starting out as unassisted you work on your operating s
Just a couple quick questions: 1. With all the spot sucking software and the spot web pages available, why not just eliminate the ASSISTED category? People use them and it can't be policed. 2. What a
As things get worse contest after contest, I hope some of the people who replied so furiously to my postings about eliminating the assisted class, get the point now. Why to create separations that we
why not just eliminate the ASSISTED category? Well, the cheats as you point out can't be caught. But they're the ones who have to look at their score, or possible plaque, and realize they cheated in
Author: ko7ss--- via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 23:53:19 +0000 (UTC)
The TO7A discussion is great, maybe the first time ever that log "details" and actual callsigns are posted in a thread like this. The easy way to not worry about any of this is to just enter SOABHP(A
funny you should mention racewalking.....our local club provides communications for a 5k walk/run every Memorial Day....there are runners, walkers, and racewalkers......now you get a free t shirt, an
In this age of Evinrude and Mercury and Honda and.... it seems almost archaic to have sailboat races. In this age of trains and planes and automobiles..... it seems almost archaic to have 26-mile foo
Author: Bob Kupps via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 19:44:21 -0700
My sentiments exactly Hans, and my compliments to the contest committees for their preservation of these "classic" classes and policing the rules governing the various competition classes. Some class
Since people aren't playing by the rules maybe CQ should get tough and consider changing the single operator unassisted transmitter class to something similar to rule 3.4.4 that is used for ARRL DX :
And when it all comes down to it, when the final score is computed, a deep breath and you, alone, must look back and acknowledge that you did what you did, in all honesty, with a video tape of the en
There is virtually no way to know who is getting spots and from where. There will never be a system requiring and login and password and even if there was, there would be a 100 different ways to get
I would guess that most of the little pistols don't cheat. If so, I'd like to know why. I have no thoughts of winning anything from my home station. I do it for fun. In the ARRL DX CW contest this ye
Why do people cheat? I guess we need a psychologist or some other fancy doctor to tell us. Why do people cheat in computer games? It is rampant. I just don't get it. Mike W0MU In the ARRL DX CW conte
Assisted vs Unassisted participation was nicely summarized in the 2015 CQ WW SSB DX Contest results. Unassisted comprised 59% of the Single Operator entrants, and 41% Assisted. Perhaps when those num
According to CQWW's survey 54.5% of serious contesters worldwide did not want the categories combined. North American's felt even stronger about this with 71.5% wanting to keep assisted separate. Joh
Author: George via CQ-Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 23:39:01 -0400
I certainly would NOT want Assisted and Non-Assisted categories to be combined. I want them to be separate categories so I can select which ones I prefer for different types of contests. For me, I pr