I don't see how this couldn't happen, and isn't happening. After all,
don't we have dead people and people who have medical limitations who
can't possibly vote that still show up on the voter rolls in this
country during most elections?
I think this is an open 'secret', just like those who claim to never
look at a DX cluster during a contest.
I shouldn't be writing this because I frankly could care less who
'wins', I just like to participate, and I also hate this discussion in
general. Somehow I think I will regret posting this :-)
I'm all for the ARRL or any other group who SPONSORS a contest to make
public the logs of the stations who submit contest logs. It should be
a disclosure in the rules. Why should I care if my logs are
published? What do I have to hide?
73 de W4AS
Sebastian
On Dec 4, 2008, at 1:50 PM, k4gun@comcast.net wrote:
> The only thing that it might accomplish is to bring to light some
> other practices. For instance, its possible that point-hungry
> stations could be looking through old callsign books and picking out
> calls they know are not operating in VHF contests. They could be
> entering those into their logs because they know there is no penalty
> for having a unique call in their log. The people at the ARRL have
> no way to verify that a QSO was or was not made. If the logs were
> public, somebody who knows those stations may call foul. If there
> are multiple cases like this, it could be very ugly for those who
> get caught.
>
>
>
> As I write this, I hope I'm not touching a third rail here. I have
> no idea if such a practice ever happens or if it does, how common it
> is. I would hope its rare at worst. Making logs public would
> reveal this pretty quickly. It wouldn't change a thing about our
> rover discussion but could heap a lot of shame on unethical stations.
>
>
>
> Steve
>
> K4GUN/R
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