It has long disappointed me to see WAE, RDXC etc. endorsing the notion
that since it is impossible to spot cheaters using cluster technology,
let's just legalize the cheating by doing away with the distinction. I
will continue to operate in contests that maintain the distinction, as
an unassisted single-op, while at the same time enjoying the technology
in other contests and contexts.
By the way, so long as the RBN spot stream is publicly available, what's
to prevent the statistical analysis pioneered by VE5ZX and CT1BOH from
being applied to all single-op unassisted logs? The "signature" of
covert use of RBN spots should be just as visible using this methodology
- see http://www.radiosport.ca/rsrp/documents/2RE%20signatures.pdf
73, Pete N4ZR
The World Contest Station Database, updated daily at www.conteststations.com
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On 4/14/2010 5:22 AM, Christian Schneider wrote:
> AB7E wrote:
>
>> Almost all the major contests have non-assisted categories where any sort
>>
> of spotting network assistance is not allowed
>
> I didn´t do a complete overview but at least more or less major contests
> like RDXC, WAG, All Asian, Oceania DX or WAEDC do not have unassisted
> categories and stand for an international trend against them - where sailors
> now have to compete against powerboats in the same category. It changes in
> this analogy from "sailing" to "single boat race" substituting the skill
> sailing with the skill of controlling the engine. So will it be with skimmer
> replacing the fundamental contest-skill of quickly finding unworked stations
> with the skill of optimal configuring the filter-software and optimizing the
> scheme of clicking the fish in the barrell. So the focus of the contest
> shifts one very fundmental step further away from a skill-comparison to an
> engineers comparison. Some will loose fascination with this and some may
> gain fascination. Btw it will be interesting to see how the unassisted
> categories can stand aginst the overwhelming convenience of readily avaible
> skimmer-spots on most screens. How should log-checkers decide which qso is a
> skimmer-generated qso? With the myriads of spots for every station there
> seem to be no reasonable chance for finding significant correlations between
> spot and qso.
>
> 73, Chris (DL8MBS)
>
> (www.dl8mbs.de)
>
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