[CQ-Contest] IARU HF Championship - A Travesty

[Jim Neiger]

Cheating is rampant.  Everyone wants proof.  Everyone else sticking head in 
sand, or more probably, don't care.  Casablanca movie a good example.

And for those who do care, our beloved contests are becoming increasingly 
irrelevant.

For me, I'm going to sit this IARU HF Championship out (was fortunate to win 
it in 1996 from ZD8.)  A fun contest, indeed.

Rather, this year I'm going to play turista on one of my favorite islands: 
Grand Canary, like in EA8.

Hoping to drop-in on my friends Pekka EA8AH and Manolo EA8ZS for a visit.

Vy 73,

Jim Neiger  N6TJ  ZD8Z  9Y4AA (in November, for some more irrelevance)




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve London" <n2icarrl at gmail.com>
To: "'CQ Contest'" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 4:17 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] IARU HF Championship - A Travesty


> Peter Voelpel wrote:
>> That is bullsh*t, there is no cheating.
>
> Just like in Rick's Cafe, if you ever saw the movie Casablanca.
>
>> If you like, I can record their 160m calling frequencies this year and 
>> make
>> a mp3 file for you.
>> Stations they hear I hear as well.
>>
>> On 160m DA0HQ has huge DL Pileups almost all day long.
>> Unfortunately those high quantity of non contesting German frequent 
>> callers
>> have nothing else in their mind then to get DA0HQ on all 6 bands and 
>> nothing
>> else, they do not call any other station.
>
> Year  Number of DA0HQ 160 QSO's
> 2006      1186
> 2005      2390
> 2004      2139
> 2003      1720
>
> Quite a remarkable drop in 160 meter daytime propagation within DL last 
> year,
> wouldn't you say ?
>
> Solar flare, or other source of heat ?
>
> 73,
> Steve, N2IC
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