The overall volume of activity was less back then as well. I'm pretty sure that total log submissions for most of the major contests have been on a long term growth curve. Dave AB7E _________________
I remember reading Cebik's design articles on Moxon antennas where he pointed out their advantages (smaller size, wider bandwidth), but one of the things he noted was their strong degradation due to
How is that?? How is having a good internet connection Dave AB7E _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/
Given all the very significant technological changes and rule modifications that have occurred over the several past decades to make DXing and contesting easier and more accessible, "tradition" has t
Paul, you've flogged this topic to death so many times and still always miss the point that the rest of us, as well as the various contest and awards sponsors, don't really care about the link betwee
As others have mentioned previously, the suspicion is that RDXC was trying to prohibit the use of clandestine remote stations. For example, I live in Arizona but if I want an illegal competitive adva
So what? Anyone who works a remote station would never know the difference. They still have to fight the pileups, they still have to navigate propagation, and they give/receive the exact same signal
That's a really silly argument. The technology is obviously already there for all sorts of remote setups, and if anybody wants to cheat using one they aren't going to wait for your slippery slope to
Late one night in a CW DX contest two years ago I tuned across one of the top East Coast contest stations (don't ask me which one because without a recording I'm not going to say) working a moderatel
I'm sure we've all done that when having friends in the shack and that's perfectly legal, but this was definitely cheating. The two extra callsigns were not ops at the station, and were in fact assig
I wonder how many team captains would intentionally choose an inferior team mate. I bet not many. I suspect more are chosen that are highly competent but for whatever reason may not have been able to
When I operate unassisted I don't use the internet for anything during the contest, period. However, I find this and other similar responses to be very curious. You in particular have previously trie
Actually, the major point of my comment was directed toward getting real time propagation information from the internet. The reference to SCP was only peripheral. The original poster talked about get
I get really, really tired with this kind of flippant comment. The people who are willing to cheat or who are looking for way to stretch the rules to gain an unfair advantage are the LAST people you
I've always thought that such an extreme level of security for LoTW was wildly inappropriate given the numerous ways that people can and do cheat in DXCC. It's like installing a bombproof door on the
You're primarily concerned about the integrity of the log submission process (the bombproof door) while I'm referring to cheating for the contacts themselves (the tar paper shanty). Here are a few ex
What does that have to do with anything? Since this is the contesting reflector we're presumably talking contesting here, and as far as I know the factors considered relevant for contest performance
So in your opinion the "control operator" wasn't really an operator? Those pesky FCC regulations would seem to prefer that it be otherwise, and the ARRL rules also state that an operator must abide b
1. I don't remember anybody calling it "assistance". It is, however, multi-op. There is a difference. 2. It's not up to the contest sponsor to decide to reclassify the log, but I suspect that they wo
You're not the first to have suggested something like that but that doesn't make it any easier for me to understand the logic behind it. Unintentional or not, the contacts Yuri made weren't legitimat