[CQ-Contest] Thoughts on DQs in CQWW

[jimk8mr at aol.com]

 There is some ado in self spotting in SSB, though I agree that friends doing it is a bit much for a DQ, absent other issues.

Perhaps we need to limit spotting to X spots per hour per station? Whether it is done by disinterested ops, friends or oneself? Could the network shut off excess spots for all stations, while letting us in the basket of undesirables in W8 spot ourselves a few times until we reach our quota, when nobody else will spot us?


73  - Jim   K8MR



Note: This is largely tongue in cheek, but not totally.




 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Stan Stockton <wa5rtg at gmail.com>
To: sawyered <sawyered at earthlink.net>
Cc: cq-contest <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Sun, Apr 16, 2017 11:11 am
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Thoughts on DQs in CQWW

This self spotting issue on SSB is much ado about nothing, in my opinion.  What's the difference in having 50 friends who spot you once each and five friends who spot you 10 times each.  Who really cares?  Focusing on a subjective determination as to whether someone got spotted by a friend too many times in order to DQ the participant is ridiculous.  

The other thing I think is ridiculous is the notion that cheating is so rampant.  
There has only been one time in the last forty years that it gave me concern that I was affected.

73... Stan, K5GO