Hello, thanks to the policy of the WRTC 2006 to make all logs public and thus offering a data pool of about 85000 QSOs, it is possible to generate a lot of interesting statistics. By using the data f
FB Kurt I think that most of the stations use clusters today. Cluster's use would be permitted and not been a different category, in my opinion. These rules allow cheating, because the most people ar
Fabian, Thanks for the great job. Each country should know it's cheaters. You just set up one more example of how much good can be gained by publishing contest logs in the internet. It would not only
NO THANK YOU Not again! I know this is repeating the same old story but I cannot let this pass. Yes, people are abusing the cluster Yes, people are DQed when caught Yes, I agree that the publicity sh
Firstly, my congratulations to Fabian DJ1YFK for a fine (and timely) piece of work. There will probably be a deafening silence on this thread because Fabian has made many people uneasy. Now they know
This is no reason to scrap the SO category. As someone pointed out recently, SO Assisted is an oxymoron. 2. Recognise that if not SO, the category must be some flavour of multi-op - and drop the ambi
K4BEV hilariously postulated: ...and then asked.... The rules for non-amateur means of communication refer to soliciting contacts, in other words, IMing, telephoning, e-mailing or carrier-pigeoning y
Fabian's work demonstrates that it is fairly easy to find packet cheaters among the top contestants in big contests like CQWW. Actually you can do a lot more than just checking the 5, 10 etc minute w
It is very rare to see a disqualification in CQWW results. Do they simply reclassify stations to the "correct" category or simply not publish their scores in the results? A listing with explanation w
I think we should be very careful about using a mathmatical formala to determine human behavior, especially during an activity as complex as a DX contest. I can envision circumstances where it could
The solution to all this is clearly handicapping. The formula is simple. All operating categories can be eliminated. All geographies can be eliminated. The differences are completely accounted for in
Yep. Just like golf. Great idea. I like it since I only compete with myself anyway. Jon Hamlet, W4ZW Casey Key Island, Florida "A little piece of paradise in the Gulf of Mexico" _____________________