I have reports of :
During the contest there were non contestants (formally assisted) spotting non
assisted people on some of the web pages. This was not to help the non
assisted people, but to help the formally assisted people get more QSOS and
contacts and ultimately QSL cards for working these individuals. In the last
contest Non assisted qso numbers doubled while the number of registered
participants dropped because of the loss of an category.
The ARRL can not police the web pages. Unassisted people benefit from the
activity of others no matter how they communicate or spot with each other.
The current rules has their head in the sand on this issue. The only fair way
to do it is to acknowledge that all sorts of assistance exists and other than
exchanging actual QSO information all classes are allowed to spot or be
spotted. That or police the web pages and all spotted call signs are
registered and sent to the ARRL to ensure they are listed as assisted. A major
scandal like this happened one with a CQ HF contest where someone documented
unassisted people were being spotted and the QSO times matched the spots. Why
expose an ARRL contest to that?
k3uhf
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