[VHFcontesting] How to increase my score, or why should I try?

[Bob Naumann - W5OV]

Well said Ken.

This is not unlike what is going on in some of the HF DX contests.

It's all cheating.  It's extending your operation and including other 
operators to help your score that you are not counting as your 
operators.

-W5OV

> This has nothing to do with the ARRL Club Competition.  If it did,
> wouldn't the "mother ship", W2SZ/1, have listed an ARRL club on its
> log submission?  It never has.  What about N6NB/R?  Did that circle 
> rover station enter the club competition on behalf of any ARRL club?
> No.
> 
> In both cases, what we have is a single contest operation using more 
> than one callsign to make contacts with itself to artificially boost
> its score so that one of its callsigns can be the recognized winner of
> a category in the contest.  This is unsportsmanlike, and many of us
> think it should be considered cheating and that the rules should be 
> fixed to prevent it.
> 
> -- 
> Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
> kenharker at kenharker.com
> http://www.kenharker.com/
>