[UK-CONTEST] IARU contest URE Report

[Gordon Brown]

People cheat, they always have and always will.  If these sad people get pleasure by winning after cheating then it says a lot about them.  We can't set up rules to defeat the cheats because they will always find other ways.  Should we set up a police force that drops in on contestants in the middle of a contest to ensure they haven't switched their linear on?  Do we stop contestants in NFD, 80M-CC etc. claiming points for contacts with their own members?
It's a hobby, win or lose you're supposed to enjoy it.  I do, always.

73 Gordon G3MZV


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Subject: [UK-CONTEST] IARU contest URE Report

I agree with Peter G3LET - change to zero points for home HQ station just
like the CQWW (this includes GB7HQ in Scotland working a station in
England!!).

73 Cris
GM4FAM

> Actually it's quite easy to believe.  The solution is not to allow QSOs
> with your own country to count for points.  There's just too much
> temptation to cheat at present.  Everyone does it to some extent but
> apparently DA0HQ has better organisation and a lower embarrassment
> threshold.
>
> 73, Peter G3LET
>
> CHRIS COLCLOUGH wrote:
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>Sorry for the cross posting.
>>
>>Have any of you been alerted to this?
>>
>>http://www.radio-sport.net/iaru_scoring09b.htm
>>
>>If this is true then there needs to be further investigations. There are
>> 2 links to pdf documents part way down that explain it all. I know we in
>> the UK get behind the RSGB entry in the contest and work them on all
>> bands and modes if possible, but this is taking the buiscuit.
>>
>>I have just read it and can't believe what I have read.
>>
>>
>>Chris Colclough
>>G1VDP