[CQ-Contest] Encouraging contest participation

[Pete Smith]

You and I go back altogether too far, Hans.  I think they stopped 
doing that late in the 1970s, though in those days the only 
requirement was that both stations had to have submitted logs - no 
cross-checking then.

Regarding the LotW security model, that has always been massive 
overkill - now perhaps a little gentle drift in the direction of a 
more rational standard could occur.  Heck, maybe CQ could start the 
ball rolling by accepting cross-checked CQ contest QSOs for its awards.

73, Pete N4ZR

At 10:10 AM 6/17/2009, K0HB wrote:

>>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.
>
>73, de Hans, K0HB
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