[CQ-Contest] L.O.T.W.

[Buck - N4PGW]

I hadn't thought about the swls, but then people who are cheating for an
award aren't doing even themselves any good.  The award and a five dollar
bill will get each of us the same change when we buy coffee at the waffle
house.  

Then again, your catching the SWL and others is evidence of what I said
would happen.  

If some ham trying to say it was his call in the log, then the holder of the
log will soon find out that he wasn't the real contact.  Then that ham gets
plastered all over the internet as a fraud and he gets disqualified for the
awards he seeks.  It becomes counter-productive.  

I never understood the reasoning for stealing awards and points.  I know
several people around here who swap DX QSL cards with one another to get
contacts with countries they don't work, or they work someone with a
friend's call so he can get the card.  I don't understand the logic.  When
they are old and talking to their grandkids and one asks, 'what is the best
thing you did in ham radio?"  What are they going to say?  I earned an award
by cheating?  No, it becomes worthless.  Their respect is worthless, too.

It makes no sense to me.  

Thanks and 73
N4PGW



> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Buck:
> 
> Actually posting logs for all to see enables cheating.  I recently
> discoverd a German SWL was using K3WWP's logs on the internet to try to
> get QSLs for contacts he had not heard even one side of.  (I also just
> caught an OM3 SWL doing the same thing by using packets spots.)
> 
> Apparently, many QSL managers and hams will answer cards when the call
> is nearly the same, figuring that the other guy shouldn't be penalized
> for their copying or writing or data entry error.  So, the cheaters look
>   through a log posted on line and find the nearest thing to their call
> and (probably quickly) send in a QSL claiming a QSO at the same exact
> date time and frequency as the similar call.  The reason for doing it
> quickly is that they want to beat the real QSL in case the guy with the
> similar call sends a QSL also.
> 
> Posting logs on line for people to view (as opposed to perhaps an on
> line search of logs vehicle) is probably a bad idea.
> 
> 

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