Ladies and Gentlemen, RE: setting up remote stations to work "only our club members" The current rules advise that UNSPORTSMAN-LIKE BEHAVIOR will subject the entrant to DQ. I'll go out on a limb here
Maybe follks just to debate this stuff. Contesting, DXCC, whatever, is based on the presumption of entrant/applicant honesty. Are there cheaters? Sure. There has always been cheaters. If someone fake
He asked for FCC action? This gets filed under GET A LIFE. tnx for sharing....it only confirms that "they are still out there." Doug KR2Q _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest ma
On 6400 qsos we had 12qsos under violation What procedure should we do if during a 48h contest we make some mistakes In waiting 10min? 73 Dave 9A1UN This is fair and honest question. THE ANSWER: 1. Y
Personal opinion follows: As I recall, the "no self spotting" rule was established because it was deemed to be another method of simply calling CQ. As others have pointed out, you (emphasis on YOU, t
I shared this link 11 days ago on a different reflector. I set a trigger point to see if I would post it here or not. I just received the last "needed" comment, so here it is. http://video.nytimes.co
It is not just contesting.....and very from just the USA. de Doug KR2Q A Nation of Cheaters By Kirk O. Hanson January 19, 2003 Cheating. What could be more American? From the snake oil salesmen of th
FYI... de Doug KR2Q The New York Times The dark side I Why do people cheat? By Drake Bennett Published: Thursday, October 4, 2007 These are tough times for fair play. Any sports fan could reel off a
Yippie! Didn't expect this...continental winner (qrp, naturally). very nice award and MNI THANKS RDXC! de Doug KR2Q _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@
I believe I already posted this, but now seems like the right time to post it again. http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/07/19/sports/1247463519048/the-10-000-commandments.html?emc=eta1 The link is "
There have been several really good posts on cheating, and this one by K4RO is one the best. Here is a great excerpt: [snip] The truth is that cheaters will continue to find new ways to cheat, but we
Interesting comments in K5ZD's WPX blog. This sounds reasonable to me. http://www.cqwpx.com/blog/ Here is a small excerpt: We have decided that for any single operator log where all QSOs are made on
EI3JE said: [snip] i.e if you had 5 stations in the shack one on each band what's to stop you having an op on every band looking for mults and then deciding which op is going to get the "10 minute" s
For years, I postrf a "personal" Contest Calendar in the kitchen so everybody knows which ones I have planned. And every year, I have to put it together manually, looking up (projecting) the correct
Thanks to everyone who responded (mostly direct). I never noticed the "Perpetual Calendar" before. What can I say. :-) For those who also didn't know about it (lots), use this: http://www.hornucopia.
Nice photos, etc. When I bought mine, also directly from HAL, I was told, more or less, "You're lucky you called. We have one left." Mine is SN 395 and when it arrived, it also came a generous quanti
Well, I suppose that things have changed a lot since then. Most Uniques are actually Busted or Bad calls (no, not all, but most). Thanks to automated cross-checking, this is now easy to do. Busted/Ba
Yes, an old topic. And I think that the SUBJECT for my email is actually stolen from N2NT (who coined the phrase many years ago), but maybe I giving incorrect attribution to Andy. Corrections welcome
NOTE: This is my opinion as an individual contester, nothing more. While some may view the Observer Program as a way to, shall we say, encourage honesty, I view it more as a way for guys (who I alrea
Q:I have a question regarding operators in the CQ WW contests. Is there any rule that prohibits an operator from operating at a Multi Op station and also at his own station with his own call? A: Ther