Is this "contesting"?? I think not. These uniques should simply be eliminated from the log. DA0HQ can work them (for zero points) and still send them their awards. (Let's see how long that lasts!) Ji
I don't have a dog in this race, so I'm not that worked up about it. But, someone alleged that they had heard recordings of DA0HQ reading from a list of calls - essentially labeling the operation as
Cheating is rampant. Everyone wants proof. Everyone else sticking head in sand, or more probably, don't care. Casablanca movie a good example. And for those who do care, our beloved contests are beco
Hi Frank, Yes, you are right. A lot of my German fellow hams only do qsos with DA0HQ during that contest and work nobody else, not even other Germans, just to get a sprint award or the 12-Band qsl ca
Peter, this is true. But some other neighbouring HQ's (F, ON, PA, SP etc) are probably closer to a big number of German stations than their own HQ. Yet, they don't work as many DL's as DA0HQ (on 160
The typical 160m daylight range easily covers Germany and 80000 hams when sitting right in the middle of the country. I still miss the answer and the proof to my question which are the "some IARU mem
Bruce, et al: I am a big fan of the IARU HF Championship, although it seems like I only operate in it occasionally. Over the past few of years we've done multi-ops here at K8CC, and one year not all
Except for being part of the W1AW/0 team a couple years ago, I haven't done this contest seriously for quite a while, but was planning a good mixed-mode effort this year. If things are really as bad
Yes, it is good to see some sunlight being shined on the cheating but it is sad for me to see that the cheating only seems to be getting worse in the IARU contest. I really like the IARU contest. Yep
Steve, In Ward's Rate Sheet Newsletter I think he mentioned that the scores DB is currently being updated with the ARRL DX CW scores for 2007. 73 - Guy, N7ZG _________________________________________
I took those figures from the DA0HQ website: http://www.stud.tu-ilmenau.de/~df0hq/DA0HQ_ger/stats/summary06.htm 73 Peter That's not what is in the ARRL scores database at http://www.arrl.org/members-
That's not what is in the ARRL scores database at http://www.arrl.org/members-only/contests/scores.html?iaru_class=&iaru_power=&iaru_sect=&iaru_dxcc=&iaru_cont=&iaru_itu=&ss_call=&long_form=1&sort0=&
They did 2404 qso´s on 160m in 2006 73 Peter Year Number of DA0HQ 160 QSO's 2006 1186 2005 2390 2004 2139 2003 1720 Quite a remarkable drop in 160 meter daytime propagation within DL last year,
Just like in Rick's Cafe, if you ever saw the movie Casablanca. Year Number of DA0HQ 160 QSO's 2006 1186 2005 2390 2004 2139 2003 1720 Quite a remarkable drop in 160 meter daytime propagation within
And in the old days, when it was still the "radiosport" contest, it was 48 hours long, and you could run 6m and 2m in it as well. I got my first introduction to 2 meter tropo running FM in the radios
Here's mine. Don't bother about scores or ranking and just get out to make as many QSO's as you want or can in any of the modes you like. For me, that's what contesting is all about. Winning is good
It's good to see some others speaking out about cheating in the IARU HF Championship. Let me see if I can use history to help others understand how we got to this sorry state of affairs.... First of
Respectfully Ken, I'm not sure I could agree it's a travesty. So much bandwidth has been spent being critical of the standard selection criteria that to selectively hold it up as a gold standard (i.e
I agree with Jeff. The horse is long dead. Everyone did a fine job of raising all of the issues along with a few suggestions for improvement. Now is the time to turn it over to the officials. Since h
Jeff. I actually posted to ask opinions. And I got them. After that, I petitioned the governing body for the affected contest. Hopefully they take the matter seriously and make a rule based decision