[CQ-Contest] Dumbing-Down Contests?

[Cooper, Stewart]

David,
Actually the principal is far from new. Back in the first recorded ARRL
contest in 1927 contestants had to obtain an 'exchange' from ARRL HQ.
This was sent to each station worked and used to verify a legitimate
QSO. Another interesting fact - the contest lasted for 2 weeks!

73
Stewart
GM4AFF

-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of David Robbins
K1TTT
Sent: 22 February 2008 14:42
To: 'CQ-Contest at contesting. com'
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Dumbing-Down Contests?

Not serial numbers, too easy to copy and listen from qso to qso to see
if you got the right one.  make the contest sponsor issue each entrant
an rsa number generator like is used for corporate vpn logins, these
generate a 6 digit pseudo random number that changes every 10 or 15
seconds.  These could be verified by the proper algorithm in the log
checking software assuming the logged times are accurate enough.  The
algorithm could probably be written into most logging software given a
unique encryption key from the contest sponsor for each entrant.  It
would even be more fun to make it generate an alphanumeric sequence
instead of just numbers, then you couldn't use cut numbers!  Solves 2
'problems' with one complicated fix!


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: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest- 
> bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Michael Coslo
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 13:28
> To: CQ-Contest at contesting. com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Dumbing-Down Contests?
> 
> 
> On Feb 21, 2008, at 5:41 PM, Paul O'Kane wrote:
> >
> > The simplest way to keep contesters honest, and avoid mindless 
> > repetition, is to introduce serials where they don't already exist.
> 
> 
> 	That pretty much sums it up. Each QSO has a unique serial
number.
> Copy it correctly or pay the price.
> 
> 	After all, this is at some level to be about communications and
> improvement of the same, not simply the shortest possible sequence to
> send, or an exchange that is already known.
> 
> 
> -73 de Mike N3LI -
> 
> 
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