[TRLog] Log Submission and Times Off

[Violette, Daniel R]

I would recommend no one get too worked up about off times.  This reflector
will get filled up too like all the others do with 'discussions'.  This is
really not a change in policy.  You listen when you should be off, you
cheated.  When you listen for 1/2 hour and put it on your paper summary as
off time, you cheated.  Take your hours off, keep the record, if they
question it you then list the times you say you were off, still honor
system.  Until your radio is hooked via the internet to the 'referee group'
and the radio indicates when it was on/off, your power, takes your log as
you fill it in, and records the QSOs (or even oversees through AI), cheating
can happen (even then I suppose there are ways to cheat with second radios
not hooked up to network, etc.).  Other than going WRTC methods, there will
be opportunities to cheat, that is the way it goes.  Many will quit
contesting if cheating becomes the norm, but it isn't going that way.  The
cheaters aren't much competition anyway.

Dan Violette, KI6X

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Peterson [mailto:andy@petersonkids.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 10:46 AM
To: trlog@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TRLog] Log Submission and Times Off



Doc, N7DR wrote:
> Which leads one to wonder how it knows when I was merely listening. Or 
> doesn't listening time count as "on" time any more?

I was wondering the exact same thing.. perhaps it's such an insignificant
amount of slop that The Powers That Be thought it could slide..
It'd be interesting to see the average "listened but didn't make a
QSO" times for competetive stations.

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