[CQ-Contest] What is the contest community willing to accept from"cheaters" and contest sponsors?

[Milt -- N5IA]

Dear Devil's Advocate,

Please have your Quorum make public an official survey with questions and 
possible answers along the lines that your have put forth in your very 
interesting and well written/expressed 'Letter to the Editor' below.

Please announce and distribute the survey via ALL common, readily available 
forums world wide and allow a minimum of 90 days for responses from the 
Amateur Contesting Community (ACC).

Please have your Quorum use good common sense AND the documented will of the 
ACC to make any possible changes (additions, deletions, upgrades, changes, 
explanations) etc., that will be for the benefit of the ACC at large.

Thanks in advance for your consideration in this very important matter.

Mis dos centavos.

de Milt, N5IA


-----Original Message----- 
From: kr2q at optimum.net
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 6:35 AM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] What is the contest community willing to accept 
from"cheaters" and contest sponsors?

The assisted/unassisted thread has taken an interesting twist.

The following is purely DEVIL'S ADVOCATE on my part.  Yeah, I'm on the 
contest committee for
CQWW, but please ignore that (if you can).  For me, the following are 
LOGICAL questions
which stem from the discussion on CQ-Contest.  These should not be construed 
as
"constructing a highway" to eliminating separate categories.

In CQWW, there are 3 power categories: QRP, LP, and HP.  Verifying power is 
very difficult.

Does the contest community accept that some QRP guys run LP or HP and are 
you OK with that?
Does the contest community accept that some LP guys run HP are you OK with 
that?
Does the contest community accept that some HP guys run SHP in excess of 
10KW and are you
OK with that?

When I ask, "Are you OK with that?" what I am asking is not that they 
"cheat," but that they end
up in the results in the category they declared (for the most part)?  Do you 
accept that some
scores are listed in the "wrong" power category because the committee can't 
do much about it?
How does this effect your view of the published scores?  Do you care?

I ask the same for single/multi-op.
Does the contest community accept that some single-op entries (even "top of 
the box") are
actually multi-op entries?  How does this impact your view of the published 
scores?  Do you
"not care," or do you say, " Oh, I know that wasn't really a single op, so 
I'll start looking at
the results with the 2nd place score."  Etc.

And again, what about for "Assisted" - does the community accept that there 
are likely entrants
in the unassisted categories that are actually using some form of assistance 
at least some of the
time?  How does that impact your view of the published scores?

How does any of this impact your view of contesting?

With respect to Assisted, how important is it to you that the various 
contest committees
are able to (or not able to) weed out those who claim to be unassisted but 
actually are
assisted?

Do you feel that there is an implied expectation that all entries which are 
published in the
unassisted categories are indeed unassisted?

What are the ethical obligations of the contest committee to their entrants 
in terms of
assuring "clean" categories?  100.00% clean?  75% clean?  50% clean?  or 
"Who cares,
it's only a hobby?"

If you were told that "Only 50% of those using assistance are found by the 
contest
committee," would that change your opinion of having separate 
assisted/unassisted categories?

What if you were told that "0% (yes, zero) of those in the top ten SOABHP 
can be guaranteed
as NOT using any assistance, ever?"  Would you still want assisted and 
unassisted to be listed
as separate categories?

End of devil's advocate.

I would LOVE to see actual answers to the above questions, especially:
If you were told that "Only 50% of those using assistance are found by the 
contest
committee," would that change your opinion of having separate 
assisted/unassisted categories?
I say, "especially," because that is the current topic of discussion on 
CQ-Contest.

de Doug KR2Q
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