Unfortunately nobody else gets to learn from those silent events. If no one learns, someone else is bound to try to repeat that method of cheating. By exposing them publicly not only do others learn
Hmmm.... So then, this hobby is not supposed to be "self-policing" as I have been led to believe for the last 35+ years? Since when is peer pressure wrong in this arena? Executioner? Please - spare m
I've been contesting from a small station, for a number of years, and I echo your comments David, Why bother... what good does it do... and to me, it begs an answer for Have the contest participants
I second the thanks and kudos for K1TTT's good work in this area. Jim George N3BB _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contes
Hi Dave I just wanted to add, if the spotters think they are doing nothing wrong, why the fake calls? Its obvious someone decided to hide their identity, for whatever reason. We however don't really
So much depends on temperament I guess. I'm not going to publicize everyone I DQ. My own "laws" are simple. If I determine that honest mistakes happened, I instruct in private. If I determine that ch
I don't get it. For all the kvetching & moaning that has been ongoing on this reflector about whether or not we really have a significant problem with cheating... Dave come along and provides a stati
Hi Everyone, Just hrd Nick LZ1JY to talk about some self spoting of LZ9A call and find this in contesting.com Regarding this information I see that I have a lot of "GOOD FRIENDs" which is doing "THE
Mike-- it is easy to understand your reluctance to publicise the calls of the DQed ops. But how about a statement to the effect that: One Op has been banned for life because he did <abc>. Another Op
All the more reason to publicize this information. If someone is faking LZ9A's call on the cluster, as LZ2HM says, the station ops should be made aware of it ASAP. It would be a real nasty stunt if a
At least now lz9a KNOWS that someone may be out to get them and has the ip address info to take action on their end. However, in my experience someone trying to make trouble via the spotting network
... ... ... ... So far so good. by Hans, please. Come on. You were asked for presenting an alternative way of getting the results. Results are: 1. People know the contest entries are checked also bey
In sports: Today's news told a Finnish ski jumper was DQed due to his skis being longer than his weight would allow. Also the person's name was public.. it was his bad. It is good we have this kind o
Hans has an excellent point re public Hanging's. Any private individual who takes on the job of "Contest Cop" will eventually come under scrutiny him/herself. That's human nature. Other problems incl
Geesh, remember that contesting is just a hobby, repeat just a hobby. There are so many more important issues in the world to deal with. Can't we focus our efforts on them instead. Doug --Original Me
I realize your proposal is well-intentioned, but I just have to speak up here. Not only do I think it is extremely unworkable due to it's complexity and bureaucratic nature, I think it would be prone
There were 49440 spots in the database this weekend. The database from my node, the dxsummit excel spreadsheet and this report will be available for download shortly after this is published at http:/
Total spots in database 56773... kind of puny when compared with the 1.7M spots on the RBN though. Busiest spotters: Spotter count WT4Q 669 DJ1AA 642 UA4ALI 524 K3LR-4 463 VE9MCC 431 UT/KL7WA 413 N2N
Author: Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 08:59:18 +0100
Is it me or do most of those "cheerleaders" come roughly from the same part of the world? 73, Maarten PD2R _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contestin
Why is it OK to self-spot on the RBN, but not on the cluster? :-) 73, Paul EI5DI _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contest