[CQ-Contest] Kudos to CQ WW for Busting Packet Cheaters!

[Jeff Maass]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cq-contest at contesting.com
> [mailto:owner-cq-contest at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Barry Kutner
> Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2001 9:58 AM
> To: CQ-Contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Kudos to CQ WW for Busting Packet Cheaters!
> 
> 
> 
> I suspect the nail in the coffin is finding a busted call in someone's 
> log that corresponds to a packet bust.
> Barry
> 

No, because someone else in the pile (who is using packet) could 
send the broken call as part of an exchange. 

As seldom as some target stations send their calls while working 
piles, that method of "copying" the target station's call is  pretty 
common.

 Jeff Maass       jmaass at columbus.rr.com     Located near Columbus Ohio
         USPSA # L-1192       NROI/CRO    Amateur Radio K8ND
    Maass' IPSC Resources Page:  http://home.columbus.rr.com/jmaass
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>From Rich K2WR" <k2wr at njdxa.org  Sun Jul 22 15:27:49 2001
From: Rich K2WR" <k2wr at njdxa.org (Rich K2WR)
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 10:27:49 -0400
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Kudos to CQ WW for Busting Packet Cheaters!
References: <4.2.0.58.20010721205534.00a9b970 at pop-server.kc.rr.com> <2ba601c1126b$5efb1b40$ede3c23f at kr6x.org> <3B5AC9FA.4215B513 at berkshire.net>
Message-ID: <001d01c112ba$7d455f80$0affff0a at 5j08601>


The answer to

"Ok, color me naive, but why would anyone SEND spots and not
receive them.  Altruism?  Seems like a waste of contest time."

is easy, but you have to remember the origins of the DX packet cluster
networks.  AK1A wrote the packet cluster software for the purpose of
enhancing the YCCC club score.  These days, with internet connections, it
may not matter, but for a long time the cluster connections between YCCC and
FRC were taken down during major contests.  Therefore, there was plently of
good reason for unassisted operators to send spots (and why K1EA made this
so easy to do in CT: i.e. one keystroke) - - they were helping the
multiplier totals of the YCCC single-op assisted and multi-op stations.

History is easy if you were there at the time!

73, Rich K2WR


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