[CQ-Contest] Four things to look for in CQ WW ?

[Chris Tran GM3WOJ]

Saturday 20th October 2001

Hello all

With the CQ WW contests imminent, the CQ WW Committee
have stated that they intend to find and penalise those stations who 
use the DXCluster, but enter as Unassisted.  This process is
difficult, and open to a lot of discussion and debate. Unfortunately,
several high-profile European SOSB stations seem to have slipped 
through the net, and their callsigns appear again in last year's results.
There are 4 characteristics which might help identify these stations
this year -

During the contest -
1.   they will appear on the frequency of a DXspot within a few
minutes of the spot appearing - the time delay may depend on
the type of spot - a big Multi-Multi may be called after a few
minutes, whereas a rare SOAB, M/S or casual operator mult.
may be called very quickly.
2.   they will be able to hold their run frequency for long periods
- even all day in some cases - obviously this requires a good
station and antennas, but they will spending a lot less time
searching/finding/identifying/calling/working mults. than other
stations.

After the contest -
3.  their score will have a mult. total (mainly country mults.) which
is 'out of proportion' to the number of QSOs made i.e.
excessively high - possibly higher than big Multi-Multi stations
(who will have been using the DXCluster and passing mults.
between bands)
4.  their UBN analysis will show a 'normal' UBN percentage,
but a higher than average 'points lost' percentage - for example
BB9BB      -2.00      -8.10
CC9CC     -2.00      -8.30
DD9DD     -2.00    -10.20
EE9EE      -2.00      -8.40
Station DD9DD has been 'pecking' mults. from the DXCluster,
but has worked one or more multipliers where the spotted
callsign was wrong.

For each of the above factors there are other possible
explanations, but any station who has 2 or more of the above
is suspect.

Why are we so interested in this ? - well, as things stand here
in Europe, you are wasting your time if you enter SOSB on
some of the bands.

Some food for thought....

73
Chris     GM3WOJ/GZ7V
www.gm7v.com


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