I have reports of : During the contest there were non contestants (formally assisted) spotting non assisted people on some of the web pages. This was not to help the non assisted people, but to help
A major scandal like this happened one with a CQ HF contest where someone documented unassisted people were being spotted and the QSO times matched the spots. Why expose an ARRL contest to that? What
Hi, I'm confused. If I'm working the contest as "unassisted" and someone else chooses to spot me without me asking them or otherwise interacting with them, I suddenly become classified as "assisted"
well a purest would say yes. What you did by spotting someone as a "SWL" or "VSWL" (hi hi) is assist the station. This station gets assistance by your post when he works other "VSWLs" who follow your
There was a scandal of a HF contest that forbid the use of spotting. However there is no way to prevent a proxy spotter on the internet. However one disgruntled contestant was able to correlate two t
That makes sense, the only thing is that the station would be penalized for a situation completely out of his/her control as they can't prevent others from spotting them if they so choose to do so. I
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:32:44 -0800
There are a few misconceptions in this email. Stations can be spotted no matter what category they are in. An unassisted single operator has no control over how often they are spotted by other statio
well its more the lack of enforcement in the analogy. Why set a limit you can't or wont enforce? Contests are not really contests without enforcement of rules and judges. The competive spirit of the
Your analysis is right on target. Stations who wish to cheat will find a way. Examining logs and cross referencing them to spots and such is simply a tool that can be used to weed out blatent rule
Here's what I suggest to make it VERY simple. == Make only four classes: 1) Home or non-mobile station: Stations that are Home or at a remote site that don't move Unlimited output power Unlimited man