That is indeed a very naive impression. Honorable perhaps, but naive. Many social studies have shown that it is human nature to cheat, especially when: a. the visibility (the chance to get caught) is
With all due respect, Steve, I suspect that you have never actually played any modern online multiplayer games. It is a far richer experience than any ham radio contest, and I can't imagine any onlin
I think you're getting all worked up over nothing, or at the very least focusing on the spec of dust and ignoring the mountain. I was interested one day in trying to grab the latitude and longitude f
If I did that I'd probably have enough left over to buy a new car. Dave AB7E _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.
I believe his point was that the objectives are all still the same. Even in the gaming world, games that merely change the scenery or method of killing get old pretty fast, and usually get ripped in
I think we're all seeing this problem, but another method of dealing with it might be for contest loggers like N1MM to have the option of adding a random offset within a user-specified range, but onl
Paul, it sure would be a lot easier to stomach your posts if you presented them as your opinion instead of pronouncements of fact, the latter being something you really don't have the right to presum
Somebody should keep the RBN system going, even if not publicly so, just to document what a dead weekend on the bands that will be. I'm not sure I see the point, though. You're basically focusing on
Frighteningly enough I often agree with with Mal, but I'm afraid I can't do so this time. I don't think that reliance on clusters has anything to do with any "generation" of contesters. I'd bet my ri
On what basis do you claim that the ones who do that are "newer" hams? And calling stations that aren't being heard is hardly limited to stations that have been spotted. That happened all the time ev
When I first read Paul's post I honestly thought it was from someone else to him since it seemed to fit like a glove. Pots and kettles indeed ... 73, Dave AB7E _______________________________________
I fail to understand all this animosity toward contests sponsors that are simply trying to clean up their events. If you don't believe there is a lot of cheating going on you have to be living in a c
Most definitely so. Try finding a small airplane in the sky on a perfectly clear day ... your mind literally fills in the all the visual space with what it assumes is there. More to the point, I thin
That's all well and good for you personally, but that's an irrelevant position in general. Clearly there has been some significant cheating at high levels of ham radio contesting. While that doesn't
Really? All these years I thought that log checking was done to catch (and penalize) errors. Dave AB7E _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.co
Aside from whatever financial investment some folks might have in the hobby of radiosport, there is no question that making a serious entry in a major contest represents a significant investment of t
Personally, I don't think that would be a definitive analysis. I'm pretty sure that contest strategies would change dramatically if the scoring system changed to a grid based system without country m
You are WAY over reacting to my comment, but I'll try to make this simple enough for you to understand. Checking existing logs for the potential effect of changing the rules as dramatically as is bei
This is all pretty weird. I expressed a short, simple opinion on a contesting topic (second post from the bottom) and now I'm being singled out (by a non-contester no less) for being a roadblock to i
Handicap systems have a lot of problems, especially if part of the goal of any potential rule change is to encourage more participation. Any scoring system that says you need to participate for at le