[CQ-Contest] Log Checking Technology

[Ron Notarius W3WN]

Tom,
 
In this particular situation, the answer (IMHO) would be... nothing.  
 
The stations that the banned operator works should not be penalized.  How would they know, especially if they're in the middle of a run and don't have time to check a banned list?  (Especially if the banned op is using a club call, a new call, a special event call, someone else's call/station, etc. )
 
More importantly, the banned operator would not be sending in a log.  Why would s/he?  At best, if s/he did send in something (which brings up an entirely different set of circumstances and psychology, so let's not go down that road), it could be used as a check log... or discarded altogether.  
 
I'd suspect that most ops who are banned for a year (or 2 or 3 or 5 or 10 or... ) either would ignore the contest altogether, or operate in a stealth mode.

So extend their ban by a year for each incident of them trying to get around it.  But don't penalize the stations that work him... they should have better things to do than check to see if an op is "legit" or not!
 
73, ron w3wn

On 05/06/15, Tom Osborne wrote:

That might be kind of tricky.

What if an banned operator gets on and works a contest and makes 3 - 
4000 Q.s just for spite even though they are banned.

I doubt if someone is running a 100 Q's an hour they can know if the guy 
who just called them is banned or not. The savvy op's probably would 
but most would not.

What happens to the operators that worked them? Will all those QSO's be 
NIL's and they get penalized? Just curious. 73
Tom W7WHY

W1VE wrote:

Are proven cheaters banned from the next contest?

Perhaps the only way to nip this in the bud is to make the penalty for 
being caught cheating VERY harsh -- perhaps being banned for 5 years or 
more might do it.. 73, Gerry W1VE
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