[CQ-Contest] Stimulating Participation was: Limited Antenna Height Category

[Kenneth E. Harker]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 12:34:44PM -0500, Pete Smith wrote:
> 
> Its worth remembering that ARRL used to credit ARRL DX Contest QSOs for 
> DXCC, if both logs were sent in and matched.  To my knowledge, it was 
> workload, rather than any particular scandal(s), that brought the end of 
> that practice.  Has the morality of the amateur community really declined 
> so much that ARRL no longer dares even consider such a thing?

Consider how the PacketCluster system works today, with no authentication
or other security mechanisms in place to ensure that the spotter is 
legitimately who they say they are.  The PacketCluster system is 
_routinely_ abused by those who are willing to cheat to improve their 
score.  After every single major contest there are obvious patterns of
abuse and cheating.  So, yes, the "morality" of the amateur community is 
something that we need to care about in system design.

The ARRL's Trusted QSL system is a fundamentally better way of doing things.


> 73, Pete N4ZR
> 
> 10:59 AM 11/30/2004, you wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:46:57 -0500, Pete Smith wrote:
> >
> >>A harder problem may be achieving the requisite
> >>level of trust between the two organizations, even though things seem much
> >>better now than in the past, when ARRL would not even mention CQ contests
> >>in QST.
> >
> >_________________________________________________________
> >
> >The ARRL would have to give up their Trusted QSL protocol, wouldn't
> >they?  How would you get around that?
> >
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