[CQ-Contest] Looking up on QRZ.com

[David Gilbert]

A call history file comprised of the combination of the prior logs of 
many other contesters (which is readily available and used by many) is 
exactly that, though.  Lots of folks excuse it by saying that it isn't 
100% reliable and that you still have to be able to verify the info ... 
but if it didn't provide actual help people wouldn't use it, and just 
because an attempt to cheat isn't 100% successful it doesn't mean it 
wasn't an attempt to cheat.

Now before anyone gets all bent out of shape by my terminology, I will 
have to say that every contest sponsor clearly knows that call history 
files are being used and to my knowledge none (at least of the majors) 
have ever come out against it.  That makes them tacitly approved in 
spite of the wording of their rules, and is therefore not actually cheating.

But I still don't like it and I still don't use one ... not even one 
comprised strictly of my own prior logs.

73,
Dave   AB7E


On 6/3/2023 10:07 AM, rjairam at gmail.com wrote:
> SCP only helps with the callsign. While purists would rather not have even
> that, it’s a far cry from getting someone’s zone, grid square, state etc
> from a callsign database.
>
> Ria
> N2RJ
>
> On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 9:24 PM Art Boyars <artboyars at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On the N1MM reflector somebody asked about how to use the "QRZ" button
>> during the contest for calls that don't appear in the "check" window.  I
>> guess he was talking about the SCP or CHF data files loaded into N1MM.
>>
>> A few people commented that looking it up on QRZ.com (or some other online
>> database??) during the contest was against the rules.
>>
>> I don't see any difference between using an online databas and using SCP
>> and CHF (except that SCP/CHF is faster).
>>
>> What do you wise people think?
>>
>> 73, art K3KU
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