Thank You Don, you rise those questions right in time.
Yes, we need to fight those cheaters. RTTY contesting was the last one with
out
all this tricks till couple years ago all those trickers brought this from
SSB and CW.
Next time I'll spend time to announce in cluster all the SO2R who hold the
freq by
CQing with out the answer for 2-3 min. The same about the people who
spotting
on their RUN freq - it is really self spotting.
Larry
RW4WZ
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of John Merrill
> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 9:11 AM
> To: RTTY Contesting
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] Disturbing Observations
>
> I couldn't agree more.
>
> 73,
> John N1JM
>
> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Don Hill AA5AU
> <aa5au@bellsouth.net>wrote:
>
> > As I tuned around the bands during the last 8 hour segment,
> I found a
> > USA SO2R station transmitting on both 15 and 20 meters at the same
> > time in a blatant violation of the rules. It wasn't a case
> of someone
> > just making a mistake. I watched for 15-20 minutes and simply
> > couldn't believe what I was seeing. I did let them know he or they
> > were breaking the rules and he/they immediately stopped.
> > But it made me mad.
> >
> > Then a little while longer, I saw my call pop up on the
> bandmap on 20
> > meters even though I was S&P on that band. At first I
> thought someone
> > made a mistake. Then I looked at the origin of the spot
> and realized
> > it was a station I had just worked. This operator spotted
> me on his
> > run frequency. Although that is not a direct violation of
> the rules,
> > it still irked me.
> >
> > I don't know how much of this goes on, but it needs to
> stop. The next
> > time I catch someone transmitting two signals at the same
> time, I will
> > call them out publicly on it. I realize there will be instances of
> > stations transmitting at the same time (Multi-2, Multi-Multi). But
> > the rules of the DLDC were specific:
> >
> > 4. GENERAL for all categories:
> >
> > (e) Only one transmitted signal is permitted at any time.
> >
> > As far as spotting other stations on one's run frequency, it's just
> > the wrong thing to do. There have been times, such as when
> I was on
> > ten meters, when I wanted to spot someone on my run
> frequency just to
> > let everyone else know the band was open. But I didn't.
> So don't get
> > caught up in it.
> >
> > There's been a lot of cheating going on in CW and SSB contests and
> > it's apparent there is cheating on RTTY too. I'm not sure
> what we can
> > do about it other than make it a point to let people know we aren't
> > going to tolerate it. I'm definitely not going to tolerate it.
> >
> > 73, Don AA5AU
> > http://www.aa5au.com
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