[CQ-Contest] Public Logs

[Kenneth E. Harker]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 05:26:26PM -0500, Ron Notarius W3WN wrote:
> A recent post said, in part:
> 
> < snip > Since IMO cheating is quite widespread < snip >
> 
> Who is cheating?
> When?
> How often?
> Exactly how are they cheating?
> And if "they" are cheating, why haven't they been exposed?
> 
> Let's deal in facts and figures, not innuendo, smears, denials, and other
> fear factors.

I think there is _plenty_ of evidence that some contesters are choosing to
cheat, and that these cheaters are being exposed:

http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/2008-12/msg00101.html
http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/2008-10/msg00278.html
http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/2008-07/msg00202.html
http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/2008-03/msg00101.html
etc., etc.

And let's not forget that even in the most recent WRTC, a competition with
intense scrutiny, there were "anomalies" in some logs that required an 
unusual adjudication to result in a fair determination of the finish 
order of that elite competition:

http://www.wrtc2006.com/release59.html

-- 
Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
kenharker at kenharker.com
http://www.kenharker.com/