[CQ-Contest] Get out of jail free card

[Scott Robbins]

... that's impossible, though.  Some contest logging programs do not output the
exact frequency information to the log for every contest.  Other entrants do
not have rig control hooked to the PC, and some rigs are old enough that they
don't interface to logging programs.  

The RDXC suggests this, but it is not required:  "RDXC the committee urgently
asks participants to specify frequencies (CAT System) on which QSOs were spent
in log".  Key word is "asks", not "requires".

I can't see what difference that would make, anyway.  I'm all over the band,
and changing bands, when making QSO's on the second radio.

If we're going to require any of this, we are right back to my original
suggestion from a few weeks ago: require top entrants, by request of the
adjudicators if they feel it is needed, to submit a complete recording of their
contest operation.  This would solve MANY issues, very easily.

Scott W4PA

--- Jim George <n3bb at mindspring.com> wrote:

> Good point. This is a key. It will be important for the contest sponsors to 
> require the frequency of the QSOs be part of the database submitted in the 
> Cabrillo files. That should make a "signature" clear. The upcoming RDXC 
> does just that.
> 
> Jim George N3BB
> 
> At 02:03 PM 3/10/2008 -0600, Joe, K8FC wrote:
> 
> 
> >snip
> 
> 
> 
> >  it seems to me that any log
> >submitted by a station using the tactics you have outlined would obviously
> >show like a sore thumb.  Let's say the station was bouncing around using the
> >skimmer output,  the log would show the various frequency transitions in a
> >short period of time.  No way a non-assisted station would be S&P up and
> >down the band and logging qso's one right after another.  To me it would be
> >very obvious.  Effective S&P methods deem that you cover the band in a
> >linear fashion as to not miss the possible mults.
> >
> >73's
> >
> >/joe k8fc
> 
> 
> 



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