[UK-CONTEST] Some thoughts re RSGB Contest Committee process

[Stewart Bryant]

If SWLs cheat on their awards, the SWL community needs to address that.
Concern that the SWLs will cheat should not prevent us putting in place
a best in class contest system.

An alternative to putting the logs in the public domain would be to
provide them to all participants. However, my view is that the logs
contain a lot of valuable information concerning radio propagation
and the communications effectiveness and this should not be discarded.

Stewart/G3YSX

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Dave Sergeant <dave at davesergeant.com>wrote:

> There are very strong reasons why full contest logs should NOT be made
> open for public viewing, in particular for QSLing and award chasing
> where it is far too easy to forge QSOs you didn't actually make. That
> is why most online dxpedition logs only show you the bands you have
> made contacts on rather than the full details. It also makes mockery of
> SWL reports, when all the chap has to do is do an online search then
> send you a card claiming he heard you (usually at times when
> propagation would indicate he most certainly did not). Many of us
> regret CQs decision to make CQWW logs public.
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> On 18 Apr 2012 at 16:48, Stewart Bryant wrote:
>
> > +1, and I would go a step further and suggest that there is no no reason
> > why the logs should not be made public. They is a wealth of propagation
> > data in the logs that should be put in the public domain.
> >
> > Stewart/G3YSx
> >
>
>
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