[CQ-Contest] CQ WW CW 2014 TO7A.

[Steve IK4WMH]

Hello Richard,

Friday, May 8, 2015, 4:27:52 PM, you wrote:

RFDN> I have difficulty making a 30 KHz swing in two minutes on CW -
RFDN> and hitting multipliers as the only QSOs.

Take a look at the following small part of an old log from which I
stripped the non relevant informations to keep it small:

CATEGORY-OPERATOR: SINGLE-OP
CATEGORY-ASSISTED: NON-ASSISTED

QSO: 14043  0125  CE3G
QSO: 14033  0126  LT5X
QSO:  7028  0126  K8PO
QSO:  7028  0126  K2EP
QSO:  7028  0127  K1HT
QSO:  7028  0127  K5LH
QSO:  7028  0128  IK3VUU
QSO:  7028  0128  G3IAF
QSO:  7028  0129  IZ1GJK
QSO: 14047  0129  ZP0R
QSO: 14073  0130  LU9HP
QSO:  7028  0131  IK0TUM
QSO:  7028  0132  S57CW
QSO:  7028  0133  UR0IQ
QSO: 14009  0134  LU1XS


Here the 2nd radio moves up and down the 20m band with apparently no
pattern as if the operator was just pointing-and-clicking.

At least a couple of the 20m QSOs shown above were new multipliers
including ZP0R which was worked on 14047 while the next QSO was logged
just one minute later 26 KHz above.

According to what you wrote it must be difficult to be able to work 2
stations so spread out one from the other in just 1 minute.

Is it enough to say that the operator cheated?

Of course no, I bet there are a lot of contesters who operate without
assistance and submit logs that have a similar pattern.

I don't know if Dimitri cheated or not, maybe there are other
undisclosed informations that led to TO7A being DQ.

What I am saying is the evidences that can lead to DQ for "Unclaimed
Assistance" should be much more solid than the ones discussed here so
far.


Oh, by the way, the log from which the above QSOs are taken comes from
the CQ WW CW 2009 and belongs to Randy K5ZD.


Steve IK4WMH