Thanks Hans. I hope we can get together sometime when you are in AZ for the
winter or I am up there visiting family. - Duffey KK6MC
On Aug 24, 2016, at 2:54 PM, Radio KØHB <kzerohb@gmail.com> wrote:
> Point taken, Duffey.
>
> I hereby amend my statement to read “It insults the community of hams, more
> than 99% of who play be the rules.” (If that results in fractional hams,
> please round to the nearest larger integer.)
>
> 73, de Hans, KØHB
> "Just a boy and his radio"™
>
> From: James Duffey
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 8:48 PM
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Cc: James Duffey; kzerohb@gmail.com
> Subject: Cheating
>
> Hans - It is straight forward to calculate the percentage of hams that play
> by the rules in ham contesting and it is less than the 99.99% number you
> claim.
>
> Consider: Not counting check logs, there were 7,899 entrants to the 2015 CQ
> WW SSB DX contest. 39 of those were disqualified for not following the rules.
> Cheating if you will. That would put the occurrence of honest operators in
> CQ WW SSB DX at about 99.5%, not 99.99%. That ignores the warnings
> distributed about questionable behavior, which were about the same number,
> and the people who don’t get caught. You may think the difference between the
> two percentages small, but it is the difference between the 39 who cheated in
> a single contest and only one being cheating (actually less than one, but
> humans occur in integer quantities).
>
> We tend to view the world on the basis of our own local personal interactions
> and observations. If your neighborhood of hams that you interact with is
> 99.99% playing by the rules, which apparently it is, you tend to think that
> is true of all hams everywhere. But, it isn’t necessarily, and the CQ WW SSB
> results demonstrate that. Extrapolating local observations onto a global view
> can be inaccurate.
>
> Sorry for one more jeremiad to the list. I tried to keep it objective and
> verifiable. Most hams are honest, but among DX contesters it is not 99.99%.
> - Duffey KK6MC
>
> Hans - You wrote “It insults the community of hams, 99.99% of who play by the
> rules.”
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