Part 1: The information provided by the Skimmer is quite time sensitive. Those who are running a frequency tend to stay mostly put, others move about a lot. My estimate is that the info provided by t
This is the first step to clearing up the issue, Ward. Too often we have the word "assisted" used as almost a pejorative, as if it was a lower class. That would work. Perhaps a 1,2,3 or a,b,c class w
It isn't a mystery. What it is is trying to force a rule to be about something that it wasn't addressing. Because much of what amateur operators take for granted today would seem like a miracle to a
I think I fit the new demographic of Hams. While many OT'ers were licensed at an early age, a new group is appearing who did not. I received my Tech license in 1999 at 45 years of age, my General in
Everyone must start somewhere. Only a very few of us started out as experts. 8^) Correct. Even sending people to the moon had a multiplicity of errors along the way. It indeed does not. I rely on vol
If I were to hazard a guess, I wouldn't doubt there might be some correlation between people who think cheating is rampant, and support for public logs. It will be possible to go back through the log
The NASCAR analogy won't fit into radio contesting however. All the competitors in that sport are somewhere near the same skill level. I was able to enter my first contest along with some of the best
Maybe we need a cartoon character like "McGruff"! (joking) Do you have a citation for that Eric? I hear that cheating is rampant. Are there verifiable statistics? I respectfully disagree. I oppose th
While I would agree that a unique is not a reason for busting a call, I would also agree that most of them are busted. But some possible reasons otherwise might be: The person who fires up the rig an
At the risk of being called "old fashioned", if he was in your log, and not an obvious bust (i.e. another call sign having worked you at that time, than I would assume that you are an Amateur and a g
Why would that be? I hope that we are not going to have a "People who don't use 3830 are cheating thread now! -73 de Mike N3LI - _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing lis
And how! I constantly lobby people to enter their logs in PAQSO. This has been a bit of an issue since the sunspot cycle has been at the bottom, and 40 goes long, and people have trouble with relativ
There are some out there, who think everyone is cheating until they prove that they are not. I don't question a person's integrity based on 3830, and a lot of others don't either. At the risk of taki
But they haven't been skunked. They were beat. This shows the fallacy of relying on preliminary scores as any kind of determination of final scores - not of enforced use of those preliminary scores.
Perhaps I need to explain here Posting the preliminary scores is a service to our participants. They see their entry, and they see we have some idea of what their score might be. But there is a reaso
Posting the preliminary scores is a service to our participants. They removed. fact. log they have a question. I'll _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@
I must really hope that posting of peoples logs does not start to happen here. This is the best demonstration that logs might be better not being made public yet. Of course it might be a way to see t
--Original Message-- what I Let us not forget that mobile operations are disqualified. Well, you could buy into satellite network access I suppose. I suppose the mobile station could come up with som
Just on this list, we had a log posted, with some interesting inferences. Public posting in and of itself is not the problem, it is what some people do with them. I had an entrant who at one stage in
Get you and your station tuned up for the start of the next contest season. still sucks..... _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://l