Interesting to say the least ... 73, Olli - DH8BQA _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-co
I agree with you Olli... What is even more interesting is the total silence from members of this forum following your message :) Maybe I was the only one to receive the message from you... ? What str
I have lost from others SV cheating this way.... I knew that they had amplifiers and sent their log as Low power. What could i do? I was expecting RSGB (it was a previous iota contest) to catch them.
As manager for the IOTA contest, I feel I should comment. We dealt with one station who repeatedly entered QRP and had scores typically 50% higher than other QRP entrants. He no longer participates.
I agree with Don on QRP and low power. Running the CQ 160 Contest for 16 years plus helping Don for 8 more I can tell you cheating does go on. I remember the VE5 who said 100 watts was QRP on 160. Do
-- Thanks Don for being the first who dares to answer. But one point about the "winning"-motive. We don´t talk about "activity weekends" but by name about "contests" = competition/comparison. It is n
I agree in many points with Christian. Beside this the contest commitee must show its power. K1TTT makes a report after major contest. How many of them were punished? Noone. But if we don't punish fo
Hello, nice to start reading replies for this post. I know is very difficult for the contest organizers to verify that stations are using more power than they claim, QRP using 100w or 1KW, Low Power
If we did some planned tests, as I proposed in the great distance based score debate, it would get us some rough idea over time how dipoles (which are stable and easy to predict) compare from various
WAY more than 0.1% of contesters are doing *something* dishonest. It's human nature, and anyone who thinks otherwise is simply kidding themselves. W0MU's post lists common examples, and I could proba
Yes, they are, and they affect the real lives of real people. Which consists of a world-wide population of perhaps less than 5,000 hobbiests on any given weekend, playing electronic splatball with RF
Aww c'mon, Hans, you know better than that! ;-) Sometime during the CQWW this fall a thread will be started on QRZ.com about all the contests every bloody weekend and how this poor guy can only get o
A few comments on this post from someone who has been competitively low power contesting for about 15 years now. 99.9% of contesters are honest is probably close to true. If you figure 5,000 (just a
Don has made some very good points. The Contest sponsors do not have magical powers to detect power cheating. You cannot assume the sponsor will be able to determine if a station is cheating in this
Ed, I've won damned few contests in the past 50 years, but I've NEVER lost one. 73, Hans, K0HB . . _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com ht
the usual station i operate is a 6AG7/807 80m MOPA that runs 20 watts to a 30 foot high windom, all operation is done with Barry the cat on my lap. but i can take this SOSB LP and go SOSB ASSISTED, a
That statement, true as it may be, seems to me to be a gross misdirection. In essence you are saying that, for you at least and probably for many others, a ham radio contest is really not a competiti
Hi all, it is more than 0.1 %. Everybody knows that. Almost everybody ignore it. 73, Zik DK8ZZ, VE3ZIK, YT3ZZ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contes
I Really like that! I have never thought of that in that way before. Joe WB9SBD The Original Rolling Ball Clock Idle Tyme Idle-Tyme.com http://www.idle-tyme.com ______________________________________
My solution to this issue is simple. I just don't work the big signals if everything else coming from that area is S-9 or less compared to the 40 over 9 signals I hear from the "big guns". If enough