[CQ-Contest] This IS cheating, right?

[Charles Harpole]

I have stopped caring who is cheating and how.  I play for the fun of a
good run.
With all the ways to cheat or nearly cheat, the scores cease to matter at
all to me.
I put aside most automation.  I know almost no one by their call sign.
I am just happing in my own definition of "contests."
73, Charly


On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw at verizon.net>wrote:

> Have you ever worked him before?
>
> Is it possible he remembers your call from a previous contest, and
> mistakenly thought you went by Eric not Rick?
>
> I have had that happen, where someone calls me by my full given name, even
> though that's not what I use.
>
> ( I've also seen this happen (in non radio situations) with my daughter...
> her name is Jessie, but there are many people who INSIST her name must be
> Jessica... yes, Jessie is derived from Jessica, but my daughter's name is
> Jessie, and it says so on her birth certificate. )
>
> Now... if neither of these possibilities is true, then we have eliminated
> the benefit of the doubt, and IMHO, if not strictly "cheating" by the
> contest rules, it's certainly less than fully ethical.
>
> 73, ron w3wn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Rick Lindquist, WW1ME
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2014 12:12 PM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] This IS cheating, right?
>
> Okay, conditions for the CQ 160 SSB have been extremely noisy for many of
> us
> along the Eastern Seaboard. Operators have routinely been CQing in the face
> of several callers, and few seem to be able to hear me, although I did snag
> HK1NA and a guy in Iowa, so the antenna system still works, such as it is.
>
>
>
> Anyway, I digress. A station came back to me, but I could not copy his
> state
> among the static crashes, so I asked for a repeat. The op comes back:
> "Okay,
> thanks, Eric, for Maine." Well, two problems here: (1) I had not given him
> his report yet (and never did), and (2) I never use my given name on or off
> the air - I go by "Rick." The logical conclusion here is that he had his
> logger set to look up on the Internet stations he was working, and he got
> my
> given name AND my exchange info from a call sign database.
>
>
>
> I don't expect to log more than a few dozen Qs in this event, but his will
> not be among the ones I submit, even though it was a needed mult.
>
>
>
> Rick, WW1ME
>
>
>
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-- 
Charly, HS0ZCW