[CQ-Contest] cqww cw spotting report

[David Levine]

As a newer contester, I'm really amazed at how anyone can get satisfaction
from doing well when they cheat.

Is there money (sponsorship) involved that I'm not aware of? Any monetary
windfall from doing better so cheating has some financial reason behind it?
I just can't for the life of me rationalize why someone would cheat whether
there was or wasn't the possibility of getting caught, which apparently
there is. An error once during a contest such as mistyping into a web page
is an acceptable oops but twice or more is just mind boggling to me.

What you do during a contest is a personal accomplishment whether it's as an
individual or as part of a team.How can someone feeling any accomplishment
if they self spotted themselves? It would be like running a marathon and
stopping your stopwatch 1 mile before you reached the finish line in order
to say you ran your personal best.

I'm either missing something obvious on why they would do it, or they just
have a serious issue. Can someone enlighten me on which is the case.

73
David - K2DSL

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:23 AM, David Robbins K1TTT <k1ttt at arrl.net> wrote:

> The abusers of the spotting network just demean themselves, I just make the
> data available so that perhaps some peer pressure can be brought to help
> them see the error of their ways.  And time has proven that it does work.
>
>
> David Robbins K1TTT
> e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
> web: http://www.k1ttt.net
> AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: K0HB [mailto:kzerohb at gmail.com]
> > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 02:31
> > To: k1ttt at arrl.net; 'reflector cq-contest'
> > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] cqww cw spotting report
> >
> > Dave,
> >
> > It's no secret that I don't endorse the cluster network for DXing and
> > contesting.
> >
> > I have even less regard for guys like you who demean and trash the
> > reputations of fellow amateurs.
> >
> > 72.5, de Hans, K0HB
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > From: "David Robbins K1TTT" <k1ttt at arrl.net>
> > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 2:08 AM
> > To: "'reflector cq-contest'" <CQ-Contest at Contesting.COM>
> > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] cqww cw spotting report
> >
> > >
> > > I love it when a plan comes together... the owner of the anonymous
> proxy
> > > server is apparently worried about the image of his service and doesn't
> > > like
> > > it being used for nefarious purposes.
> > >
> > > So this group:
> > >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >> CY2ZT/2 - dxsummit
> > >>
> > >> IP Address: 69.41.173.145
> > >> Spotters: k3nn, f0cus, ve5sd, w1ll, h1ha, cl3ar, ve3ggh, w4car, ve4jy,
> > >
> > > That I found was from an anonymous proxy service now has a real IP
> > > associated with it... and guess what, it comes back to Bell Canada!
>  And
> > > even better, most likely a dsl service in Quebec.
> > >
> > > More details to come, its been a long day, there were some other ip's
> in
> > > the
> > > log I got that were  sending spots via dxsummit that deserve checking
> > > also.
> > > So watch out you nefarious spotters, even anonymizer systems aren't
> safe
> > > havens any more!
> > >
> > > David Robbins K1TTT
> > > e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
> > > web: http://www.k1ttt.net
> > > AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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