Given the recent suggestions about contest length, difficulty of exchanges and
ability to copy exchanges outside of the single QSO an operator is involved in,
I have one suggestion that will address all three concerns simultaneously:
1. Require contestants to pre-register. They will then get an electronic key
that they plug in to their logger to generate random alphanumeric exchange
information. It could be ax12qu for one QSO and 1b2y7e for another. Don't
pre-register? Can't play. Go away. The log checking program will
cross-reference each sent exchange with the key to verify, as well as with the
receiving station's logs.
How does this address all three concerns? It will complicate the exchange
significantly. You will not be able to copy the exchange the QSO before and
anticipate the exchange you will receive. It will close the contest to
everybody who hasn't thought to pre-register and drive the less serious ops
away in droves. Rookies will similarly be discouraged from polluting our
airspace. The remaining ops should then be able to finish the contest in only a
few hours.
And then all our concerns will eventually be addressed at once when the
regulating authorities realize that nobody is using the frequencies we've been
assigned -- even during the once-heavy contest weekends -- and rescind our
authorizations.
Simple, eh?
73, kelly
ve4xt
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