[CQ-Contest] Emails During a Contest

[Peter Bowyer]

We must be reading a different thread. I've seen at least a half dozen
people suggesting that the email should be forwarded to the contest sponsor
or director.

Peter G4MJS

On Wed, 3 Apr 2019, 01:25 Onno Benschop, <onno at itmaze.com.au> wrote:

> 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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> this scra^Hibble
>
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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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> >
> >
> > --
> > Mike Stokes
> > KK9V
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