Topband: Fwd: ARRL DXCC - 160 Meters OK1YQ (OK1RD) Legitimacy???!!!

[Herbert Schoenbohm]

I concur. I wonder if someone could adopt their logs post operation and
provide LOTW as a surrogate?  Also, the stations who require green stamps
could learn the OQRS procedure and probably net more income and quicker to
support their operation.

Herb, KV4FZ

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 8:30 AM Tim Shoppa <tshoppa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Herb, in the past 5 years most major DXpedition sponsors have required
> (eventual) LOTW upload as a condition of the funding grant.
>
> This is not 100% of course. A recent notable DXpeditions by a guy who will
> never do LOTW, was 4B4B Revillagigedo. And several Kosovo operations (not
> espcially "hard" but "new") will never do LOTW either.
>
> Now, for rare DX home stations (not DXpeditions), this is much less
> effective. Several of these guys really do depend on green stamps for
> income it seems.
>
> Tim N3QE
>
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 3:18 AM Herbert Schoenbohm <
> herbert.schoenbohm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Would not a 100% LOTW be the ultimate answer to card frauds?  There is, in
>> fact, is no card checker in the VI for 160 meter QSO's causing me
>> countless
>> mailings to the DXCC desk.  This all could be avoided in the future if the
>> ARRL went to 100% LOTW. Most rare DX stations would want their operations
>> to count and would easily sign up to ARRL's LOTW, I think.
>>
>> Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ.
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 6:19 PM Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > It does seem, at the moment not being entirely wrapped up in ham
>> > radio, that there certainly is the analogue of OK1YQ in just about
>> > every realm of life. I can think of a few names that I personally
>> > found intensely irritating in the particular circumstances. So I DO
>> > understand the pique. When will the &#%@%$ so n so finally get his,
>> > and a list of similar thoughts probably familiar to everyone on this
>> > list.
>> >
>> > It would seem to me, the fact that I can even remember OK1YQ,
>> > specifically for cheating and nothing else, as well as several other
>> > calls for the same violation, is already punishment metered out.
>> >
>> > What does any of us want to bubble up in another's memory when they
>> > run into our call sign?
>> >
>> > We are not diminished by his cheating. He is.
>> >
>> > That he cannot recognize that and abandon the cheating, desperately
>> > needing the unearned magnitude on the list to prop up his self-image
>> > and soothe his searing feelings of inferiority, should be the object
>> > of pity, not an affront to ourselves.
>> >
>> > I'll agree with Ken, that the complex electronics and programming of
>> > modern ham radio increases methods and means of cheating.
>> >
>> > But shall we all cry "Foul! Alas!" and throw our life-long favorite
>> > toy in the dust bin?
>> >
>> > Not me. I have too many really great ham friends, across a lifetime,
>> > too many gone on and missed, more for their great quality as human
>> > beings than anything.
>> >
>> > OK1YQ is a gnat. Let's not give him more than a gnat's worth of
>> > attention: Smack it with our key hand during the contest logger
>> > auto-send and back to the keyboard in time for the return exchange...
>> >
>> > W0UCE's lifelong rye humour, marvelous culinary skills, and essential
>> > basic charity toward humanity will forever define what bubbles up
>> > whenever I hear or see his call sign. Ponder on your version of W0UCE
>> > and smile upon the wonderful fortune of that.
>> >
>> > 73 all,
>> >
>> > Guy K2AV
>> >
>> > On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 4:28 PM Ken Claerbout <kenk4zw at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Several months ago I was asked by the League for a segment of one of
>> > > my DX-pedition logs.  I assume it was for this, but I don't know that
>> > > for a fact.
>> > >
>> > > Times are changing.  There are more ways than ever for someone who
>> > > wants to game the game.  Fake cards seem rather old fashion.
>> > >
>> > > 73
>> > > Ken K4ZW
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