[CQ-Contest] Exisiting Penalty System is Working Very Well
George Fremin III - K5TR
geoiii at kkn.net
Wed Sep 6 21:53:42 EDT 2000
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 03:51:02PM -0800, kl7ra wrote:
>
> And they follow with a long list of logic, NONE OF WHICH ARE TRUE when
> one or more competitors in the class/section "cheats" by recording the
> contest. The incentive to "cheat" is promoted by the disproportional
> penalty (greater the penalty, greater the reward for recording) and
> the fact it's [impossible] to be caught UNLIKE excessive power or
> packet assist.
I would like a world were folks did not "wash" their logs before
submitting them - since I do not go back and clean up my log
by playing a recording or running it through some sort of
callsign checking program (I think this would be a much better
way to do it than listening to a recording.)
Some people will no doubt choose to do these things - I don't
I know others who don't do this either - and we seem
to fair pretty well in the log checking process.
I am sure I could get the errors down further with
the above techniques but I do not see this as the right
thing to do - I should strive to get it right DURING the contest.
> If you read pro-penalty posts you find no mention of "recording". The
> reason is obvious. Recording a contest to review and edit the log
> screws the system.
I have started recording my contests - so far I have recorded
the 1999 SS SSB, 1999 10m contest, 2000 ARRL DX contest (first 22 hours),
2000 wpx ssb contest and the 2000 IARU contest (I think).
I do this for several reasons:
1. Because I can - with MP3 compression I can record 30 hours of
the phone SS (even the off times) in stereo (both radios) in
about 420Mb or less of disk space. I think this is cool.
2. In case something interesting happens during the contest.
I can hear it again or play it for friends.
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/audio/k1ar.mp3
3. So when I get the log checking report I can go listen to
the recording and see why I made the error.
(and yes they are usually MY errors)
4. So when I get a QSL card for a QSO I can not find in my
log I can listen to the recording to see if I can
figure out what happened.
I don't go back and correct my log before I submit it - in
fact I dont think I have ever listened to more than 45 mins
of my contest effort - it is just way to BORING and painful.
Those periods spent on 160 meters from HC8N in the ARRL DX
contest were more than painful enough the first time - I dont
want to live thorough it again - but you can if you would like.
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr/hc8n_160m.wav
(Warning this is 3.4Mb of static crashes)
--
George Fremin III
Johnson City, Texas "Experiment trumps theory."
K5TR (ex.WB5VZL) -- Dave Leeson W6NL
geoiii at kkn.net
830-868-2510
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr
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