I don't have a personal stake in the debate as I always run assisted and claim it that way. I do it because I enjoy the interplay of the technology. Meanwhile, it is accepted that to date the best SO
Hi Hal...I agree 100% with what you are saying... de Rick NQ4I _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/li
The point I'd like to make is there are really three categories: - SO - SO (A) - SO (cheating A) We don't know too much about how the scores of the third category stack up, but knowing of a few stati
Joe I don't know how somone would get caught , however If you were checking a Log you might find a station is running on 14005 at a really good rate then suddenly for one contact of 20 seconds makes
Be sure that is NOT how cheaters proceed. They turn on the cluster probably in a different PC via remote desktop in some distant country or QTH, even in their smart phones. The still manually scan th
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:38:52 +0100
If a mult gets spotted and you work him only seconds after the mult gets spotted, than that's suspicious. If this happend multiple times it's beyond suspicious. That's one of the tell tale signs of a
I am really not following this whole assisted/unassisted debate, but just have one small comment (for those who analyze frequencies in logs): Don't assume all unassisted ops follow a linear search p
Tom, N1MM, is right. I, for one, would be happy to donate some time to help with whatever task would add to the integrity and need of contesting. I wish I had the time to volunteer for the WPX positi
That's true Tor. I tried to explain that and considering Skimmer spots are produced for the same stations on a given QRG every three minutes or so I guess (on each skimmer server) and given the fact
Plus my station you do not know what freq I was on (only if the other station says exact freq) because my old boat anchor rigs are not computer controlled so I say 20 meters CW and thats about all ya
Hal - There's an easy 4-letter explanation for that: W-R-T-C. As long as the WRTC qualifying rules penalize Assisted entries, there's no way the top guys will choose that category for their Single-O
Amen! A variation - I hook my ancient boat anchor (Drake TR5) to my "portable" antenna - which varies in height with the amount to trouble I take to put it up after the last "mini-dxpedition" and plu
Big big mistake by WRTC committee. But well, they rule the game. There are creepy situations about this. Too sad. 73. Martin, LU5DX _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing
Martin, I wonder why you believe it is a mistake for assisted to be "penalized" relative to unassisted? I would agree you would have a point if you also thought the WRTC competition should include as
Howdy Stan. Thanks for your note. Actually it is quite complex for me to explain well since I need to translate my thoughts from Spanish to English and most of the time I'm pretty sure I end up not s
Martin, Local church sign says "Worry is a total waste of imagination". I think there is too much worry over whether someone might have done something to cheat and not enough time spent trying to imp
Martin,Stan I agree with both of you, its very clear that being assisted is something that might benefit some and damage others, I seem to be in the latter group, I run assisted and usually make the