[CQ-Contest] WRTC Spot/Log Correlation

[Tonno Vahk]

Fabian's work demonstrates that it is fairly easy to find packet cheaters 
among the top contestants in big contests like CQWW. Actually you can do a 
lot more than just checking the 5, 10 etc minute windows. You also have 
frequencies! If not in the station's log then with the spots. CQ committee 
has developed very fine ways to track down cheaters and disqualifing a known 
cheater OE4A as claimed EU SO AB HP champion in 2005 SSB clearly shows that 
the times to get away with this are over. You can be very smart trying to 
work spots at 11th minute (if you think CQ committe is using 10 minute check 
period) or mess around with QSO times in your log. Still, if your log gets 
highlighted and carefully analysed you can't get away.

So that actually makes the discussion of whether we should have assisted or 
non-assisted classes in contests or just one class for all much less 
important. There are contests for both and that is very fine. It is great to 
work contests like Russian DX for a change where cluster is allowed for all. 
RDXC is a great contest by all means. But SO in CQWW is really the biggest 
challenge and those 48 hours just on your own without any other link to 
outside world than your two radios is uncomparable to anything else.

With great confidence we can look in to the future of top SO AB contesting 
in EU now knowing that the playing field will be fair and I am also sure 
that there will be some clean up in Monoband classes in the coming years.

It is maybe a bit too harsh to condemn some of the guys in Fabian list as 
what they might have been after was maybe just trying to work as much WRTC 
stations and help the contest not really win IARU. So posting as Single Op 
might have been unintentional really. Somebody who really tried to win IARU 
would not have spent too much time with WRTC stations anyway. But we look 
forward to the day when CQWW logs are disclosed the same way and this 
analysis would really look interesting and appropriate then.

73
tonno
es5tv



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Igor Sokolov" <ua9cdc at r66.ru>
To: <mail at fkurz.net>; <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] WRTC Spot/Log Correlation


Fabian,
Thanks for the great job. Each country should know it's  cheaters.
You just set up one more example of how much good can be gained by
publishing contest logs in the internet.
It would not only be educational but would also serve as a great tool to
track cheaters.

73, Igor UA9CDC


Hello,

thanks to the policy of the WRTC 2006 to make all logs public and
thus offering a data pool of about 85000 QSOs, it is possible to
generate a lot of interesting statistics.

By using the data from all 46 WRTC logs and the spots from the
OH2AQ-Database for all WRTC-Stations, I generated an analysis of
correlation of DX spots of WRTC stations, and the appearance of
callsigns in the WRTC logs shortly after. Combining this with the
claimed categories according to the official list of submitted
logs raises some questions if some people submitted in the right
category. Remember: Single OPs are not allowed to use spotting
networks in IARU.

The results of the analysis, along with all raw data and the source
code used to generate it can be found here:

http://dl0tud.tu-dresden.de/~dj1yfk/wrtc/analysis.shtml

Looking forward to hear any opinions...

73,
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Fabian Kurz, DJ1YFK * Dresden, Germany * http://fkurz.net/
Online log: http://dl0tud.tu-dresden.de/~dj1yfk/log.html
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