[CQ-Contest] Encouraging contest participation

[K0HB]

> I can hear the screams now about diluting the "integrity" of the
> awards, but cheating scenarios involving collusion among participants
> in a contest to fabricate QSOs are pretty far fetched, and should be
> pretty easy to detect.  I suppose people might also point to the loss
> of revenue by ARRL, particularly for DXCC, but I truly wonder if the
> awards program is a profit center for them, or more a question of
> loss mitigation.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
>

No all that long ago (but in the paper-log era) ARRL did grant DXCC credit 
for contacts in cross-checked logs.  Don't know why the practice was 
stopped, perhaps workload (?).

It would take some non-trivial programming resources to implement, and given 
the LoTW "security model", wouldn't likely be transparent to log-submitters. 
Probably a non-starter.

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