AA3B wrote: "There are significant stakeholders that have made major investments in time and resources that are entitled to have a voice in this process." -- A voice = 1 voice (anyhow louder). I donī
Operating on Sunday in the late '80's in WPX used to feel like watching the grass grow. Most people used up their operating time in the first 24 hours. -- I dare to oppose. When most people have work
-- Thanks Don for being the first who dares to answer. But one point about the "winning"-motive. We donīt talk about "activity weekends" but by name about "contests" = competition/comparison. It is n
Hi Julio, just curious - DF0HQ should have won EU??? I just looked up that DR1A claimed more than one million higher score and LX7I was also a bi better than DF0HQ. Thanks for hints and best 73, Chri
Little pistol view: Regarding any individual I cannot claim that he were running excessive power - without seeing a calibrated power meter in his shack or better having field strength measurements on
Big turmoil about a re-reported mistake quoted from a source on one hand (to be corrected of course), but deafening silence about power cheating on the other hand. Interesting priorities with regard
Hello Bob, about power cheating and proof I could simply rely on this recent post http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/cq-contest/2011-September/095321.html - but better add: E73M accused two operat
However, there is a very real danger of unintended consequences. Whatever time limit is set, there will be some people who operate more to maximize their time under the limit. There will be other peo
radio QSO from the Azores. Well, some subtraction should be made, as OH2UA stated in his 3830-report (http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/3830/2012-April/249492.html) that those QSOs do not count f
quote: "...the best solution would be to use the LoTW authentication system for log submissions. That would have the dual advantage of verifying the call sign in the log and allowing automatic submis
How about the practice of some contests to simply publish preliminary rankings after the log checking is done? Everyone interested can check his score for one or two weeks and can report problems bef
How about confronting them with the recordings first in private mail and asking for a statement? Depending on their reaction it may be worth to publish the call here plus allowing the "peers" to list
Quote: "I really like this approach: treat different customers differently. ... 5 days might be long time for Top Notch Operators, but It's too short for casual "having fun" participants." No. Rules
To add more: Logs with undetectable time errors - which only show up during the checking process, i.e. someone forgetting to reset the timezone in his notebook after a business trip. The qtr of all q
"If bands aren't congested, this shouldn't be a problem. If bands are congested...there will be no "up" to send the pileup to, and therefore you should stick with working simplex." My bet - we will h
Just an impression from the distant cheap seats in the little pistol part of the audience: It looks like the director of Tour de France stepping down wihtout a properly selected successor and at the
Contest organizers, have in their hands a very specific and easy way to ensure more valid and transparent results are achieved for everyone in one very specific aspect where cheating has been hitting
What a headline... After some hours of qrp-contesting I thought first it was about bigguns not knowing how to react to a tiny signal ;-) Same "deer in headlight"-case after the second request for rep
cheat. I do recall ham radio being a hobby.. It takes little oil to pollute a whole water reservoir, so ask any small cycling club how cheating (=doping and its accompanying lies and even more lies)