[UK-CONTEST] IARU Contest: Level playing-field?

[Callum M0MCX]

Oh my goodness. Is this real? It makes a mockery of the whole thing. You
might as well read out the call book over the telephone to an HQ operator.
Better still, OCR it!

C.


-----Original Message-----
From: G3SXW [mailto:g3sxw at compuserve.com] 
Sent: 17 July 2006 22:22
To: UK-Contest
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] IARU Contest: Level playing-field?

UK-Contest
Here is interesting data on IARU contests.
How can this be a level playing-field, especially
in WRTC but also in all other contests?

This goes beyong 'national-loyalty': it's log-
padding: feeding calls belonging to other people
only to your favoured station. That is breaking the
IARU rules and is against the contesting spirit.
A few such calls would go unnoticed, but these
numbers are enormous and give the DLs (and SPs) an
unfair advantage. Should we assume that these QSOs
actually took place? or were just added to the log?
It prevents smaller countries from ever winning, no
matter how good they are. It becomes a contest to see
who has the most friends who can feed call-signs from
the national call-book.
It also puts those colossal CN8WW records in a different
perspective.
If we all play this game, we may as well do it off-
air with RUFZ or MorseRunner.
This is bringing contesting down.
73 de Roger/G3SXW.

> IARU 2005
> QSOs made with own country
> GB5HQ - 3,120 out of 12,515 (25%)
> EM7HQ - 1,976 out of 10,947 (18%)
> R9HQ  - 1,621 out of  7,638 (21%)
> SN0HQ - 8,203 out of 17,584 (47%)
> DA0HQ - 9,000 out of 19,900 (approx 45%)
> 
> DA0HQ
> year     place  total QSOs   DL QSOs    %QSOs
> 1992     2.        10.813    2.395      22.1
> 1993     2.         8.934    2.472      27.7
> 1994     2.         8.801    3.131      35.6
> 1995     5.         9.233    2.318      25.1
> 1996     1.        10.837    2.841      26.2
> 1997     2.        11.840    3.749      31.7
> 1998     1.        12.931    5.237      40.5
> 1999     1.        18.473    7.518      40.7
> 2000     1.        19.831    8.586      43.3
> 2001     2.        19.978    9.394      47.0
> 2002     1.        18.735    8.161      43.6
> 2003     1.        19.046    9.748      51.2

Finally, here is data directly from DL6FBL.
While operating PT5P with DL2CC in WRTC they made 150
Unique QSOs out of a log of 2,000 QSOs (7.5% of their log,
many times more than almost all other WRTC Teams).
One-half, 75, were with DL. One half of these (37 QSOs)
were provided by one station, using ten different
call-signs (one-quarter of all their Uniques). None of
those ten calls appears in any other WRTC log.
Ben seems to be proud of this performance. Hmm.

>* 37 out of the 75 German "Uniques" go back to friend Manfred,
>DJ5MW, who also worked us as DF5UL, DG4BUL, DG6MDG, DL5MIE,
>DL0LI, DM5W, DN5WA, DR0W. Four of the callsigns really belong
>to himself, the others are "Friends and Family".
>* DL2FAG gave us his club call DL0DK, his brother's DL2FAH
>and his wife's DD5PY three times (12 QSOs)
>* DK3GI worked us as DL0WW on three bands - the place where he
>in fact was operating from.
>* DF0CG is my home club, DB6JG and DF3KV were operating from
>there (doing DA0HQ 20 meters CW).
>* DL1Z is DF3KV's club >callsign. They were happy to give us
>a call >on one single band.
>* DL0CS is DL3LAB's club callsign on two bands.
>* DL5CT, DK0HG and DH5VK were worked in a row on three bands.
>But I must say, I do not even know these guys. 
>* Also the rest of the DL callsigns do not ring a bell.
>I don't think that you can take away the enthusiasm to hail the
>"home team"
END.
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