[CQ-Contest] Unique perspectives

[Zack Widup]

Reminds me of a Field Day many years ago (> 30).  I recall vividly when a 
couple of the FD ops in our group just picked another station at random, 
worked him, then sat and fed him about 15 QSO's using callsigns of other 
club members who weren't active during FD that year.

This was in the days of paper logs and dupe sheets.  I'm sure the logs of 
the other station were not scrutinized carefully. 

73, Zack W9SZ

On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Warren  C. Stankiewicz wrote:

> > I know it's a horrible thing to think about, but what is to stop someone
> > from just putting in a bunch of callsigns in their log to make it look 
> > like
> > they worked a bunch of uniques.  I know no ham would do that, but---
> 
> This was actually tried once in an ARRL contest. I'm not going to say which 
> one it was, or when, or who. However, they worked a large number of uniques.
> 
> And when this was discovered, we contacted the holders of the questionable 
> calls, and asked if they had made the contacts or not. When they replied in 
> the negative, the individual was referred to the ARRL Awards Committee, who 
> voted to disqualify them.
> 
> Which is the way it should be done, if it's going to be done at all.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Warren, NF1J 
>