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Re: [CQ-Contest] Rule Enforcement - why not power cheating?

To: DXer <hfdxmonitor@gmail.com>, CQ Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Rule Enforcement - why not power cheating?
From: Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 16:46:49 -0500
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Vince, if someone showed up at your door, identified himself, and showed you a letter from the contest committee asking him to visit you during the contest, would you really refuse him entry?

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 2/26/2017 12:45 PM, DXer wrote:
Pete,

I know I'm over reacting/exaggerating, and that the contest rules can always make this idea 'legal', but is it really a good idea?

My understanding is that law enforcement agents will always have a warrant, and that normally they won't 'pounce' before sunset and after sundown. Will these 'few respected and well-trusted observes' (everyone else is a crook, it seems) respect/follow any criteria on approach? What about Florida's 'stand your ground' law?

All for the sake of discussion, of course, but let's not forget this is a hobby. There must be other ways to clean up contests, rather than creating the ham version of bounty hunters.

73 de Vince, VA3VF

On 2017-02-26 11:17 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:

I'm not talking about CQ's ill-fated notion of having on-site monitors -
just that the contest committees could deputize a few respected and
well-trusted observers to drop in on suspected violators during contests
to verify that they are at least approximately complying with the
rules.  Certainly anyoneusing KW amps as drivers, as recently reported,
would be easy to catch this way.

73, Pete N4ZR
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