[CQ-Contest] Emails During a Contest

[Onno Benschop]

During a recent contest (not CQWPX) the local mailing list received a
message indicating that the wrong grid square had been exchanged in the
first 5 hours of the contest, indicating that we should all alter our logs.

I pointed out that it was logged as exchanged and that any such updates
should have been made on-air.

Another station gave out contradictory location information, they didn't
know their grid square, instead gave out a postcode with non-matching
suburb.

With my log submission I sent an update with this to the organisers who
thanked me for the information.

Can anyone explain why none of the messages I've read on this topic on this
list have suggested forwarding the email to the contest organiser, given
that the rules are there for the benefit of all participants, including you?
--
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On Wed., 3 Apr. 2019, 06:29 mike stokes, <mike9v at gmail.com> wrote:

> If he submits his contest log, then there is no question that it is
> unethical and cheating.
>
> But, assuming he doesn't submit his log, it is no different than emailing
> and asking you county, grid square, or other info.  If he is not submitting
> a log, he doesn't have to follow the rules.
>
> Mike
> KK9V
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 2:39 PM Jim via CQ-Contest <
> cq-contest at contesting.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Yes, it is cheating or at least highly unethical.
> >
> > Having read subsequent posts that it was from a serious competitor who
> > should have known better, the immediate response to him might have been
> to
> > say "no, I sent you XXXX", where XXXX is not what you sent him. If he
> > believes you, at least he will lose that QSO. For a casual likely
> newcomer
> > I’d have just ignored it, or perhaps politely replied “No thanks”.
> >
> > And forwarding the email to the contest director was indeed appropriate.
> >
> >
> > 73  -  Jim   K8MR
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Apr 1, 2019, at 10:48 PM, ku8e <ku8e at ku8e.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I had a station who I worked during the WPX SSB contest send me an
> email
> > during the contest asking what the number I sent him was. I guess he
> wasn't
> > sure when he worked me.Do you think this is cheating? Personally I think
> > this is cheating. Maybe I should forward that email to CQ? It really irks
> > me when people blatantly cheat and think there are no consequences. Also
> > there were way too many stations on 40 meters from Europe that were
> > probably cheating by running some serious power. It's frustrating when
> you
> > call someone who is 30db over S9 and they CQ in your face. It's not like
> I
> > have a crummy antenna on that band plus I'm running an amp. Maybe someone
> > in Europe can explain to me what I'm missing?Jeff KU8E Sent from my
> > Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
> >
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>
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> Mike Stokes
> KK9V
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