[CQ-Contest] Ban all contest spotting?

[RW4WZ]

> > Contest sponsors can, to a limited degree, monitor 
> self-spotting (and hidden self-spotting).
> > Asking your friends, club members, citizens of your home country to 
> > "spot me often" is, to me, distasteful and technically, 
> banned in at 
> > least some contests.  But a "grass roots" effort?  How does 
> a sponsor 
> > prevent that?  How does one detect a "pre-contest 
> arrangement" from a DX guy falling "vicitm" to 
> well-intentioned "friends."

It seems for me there is way to solve this problem to consider 
to install the pure (honest) unassisted cotegory

- add to the Cluster protocol one more filter which could be 
  fill out by sponsor by claim from people who want to participate
  as unassisted.

- No selfspotting, no helpers and competitor spots

- other people play their game with cluster as usual ;)

Larry

RW4WZ