[CQ-Contest] KP4KE

[Mats Strandberg]

Ed,

I fully agree on your last statement.

If we (the contest community), start doubting the ability and commitment
our contest sponsor show to our hobby, then time to consider digging deep
for the stamp collection we started as young kids.

The crocodile tears we see when someone is "caught with the beard stuck in
the mailbox" are just the expected reaction from someone previously we
trusted.

CQWW CC and others: Keep the pressure high on anyone who made the decision
to compromise his or her ethics - just for the purpose of "being part of
the elite"....

Several excellent contesters who actually belonged to the extremely
talented group, by a few wrong decisions, DQd themselves out from our
Gentlemens Club... They will have a tremendously hard way back to be
accepted as honest contesters.... Such guys might really have to find that
stamp collection again ;)

Fair play Conresring rulezzz!

73 de RM2D (SM6LRR), Mats

PS In this latest case, my intuition tells me not only fake spots was the
issue. Score difference between winner and 2-5th position at least make me
suspicious if other known methods also might have been used.... Calling him
endless times with 1 kW without results on low bands when he was weak made
me wonder "how high is this guy's noise floor"... or is he really LP

On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 at 06:35, Ed Sawyer <sawyered at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Sorry, its not KP4XX, its KP4KE.  We all know it, so lets stop beating
> around the bush.
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>
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> In addition to know - beyond physics power excursions - I caught KP4KE
> spoofing my call on DX Summit and spotting himself.  He asked me to spot
> him
> and I declined.  I am not even connected to the internet for contests at
> the
> time of that event which I believe was around 2004.  Later, in researching
> any spots of me during the contest, I find to my surprise that I have
> magically spotted KP4KE at the time he asked me too.
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> I brought it up to the ARRL Committee at the time.  To my knowledge,
> nothing
> ever happened about it.
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> I applaud committees from weeding out the bad apples in the sport.  There
> is
> much more work to do.
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> 733
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> Ed  N1UR
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