[CQ-Contest] cqww cw spotting report

[David Robbins K1TTT]

And that has happened, and logs have been withdrawn, but does that educate
the 'masses' that such things are being watched and are out of bounds?  How
much publicity is given by the contest sponsors as to WHY a log is dq'ed or
reclassified??  By doing it in here I know that the word has gotten back to
some who's actions may not have been dq-worthy, but are still not ethical.
And that others who may consider cheating using the cluster network know
they are being watched.  The contest sponsors do get my raw data, and they
also do other checks with it against the logs themselves, some of which I
wish they would publish for the world to see... though like when I started I
think they want to keep their methods secret so cheaters don't figure out
how to bypass them.  I am more hoping that I have made it so much more work
to hide your cheating that it becomes counter productive.


David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: K0HB [mailto:kzerohb at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 18:35
> To: CQ-Contest
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] cqww cw spotting report
> 
> 
> > Dave K1TTT is right.  If there is a better way to educate operators
> > that these sorts of actions are wrong then please step up to the
> > plate, Hans, and make your suggestion.  Private communications on
> > matters like this just don't work, and certainly don't help educate
> > the masses.
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> First, the task here isn't to "educate the masses".  ("the masses", what a
> patronizing term!)
> 
> The task is to clean up the act of a tiny, tiny minority.
> 
> And the solution is painfully obvious.  Detect them (K1TTT knows how) and
> identify them to the contest sponsor.  Then the sponsor DQ's their log.
> 
> What could be simpler?
> 
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
> 
> 
> 
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