I don't blame you, Rick - that's painfully naive and demeaning to you and
your team. He should start by reviewing K1TTT's excellent post-contest
analysis of spots on DX Summit, to find out who's really self-spotting and
all the ways they hide their identities. It's high time that the contest
sponsors began to crack down on this practice, particularly since Dave
makes it so easy.
73, Pete
At 08:03 AM 2/16/2008, Rick Dougherty NQ4I wrote:
>Hi All...we received an e-mail from the ARRL Contest director early
>yesterday evening regarding a spot he had observed on the packet
>cluster....a local ham in the Atlanta area had spotted us on 160m....only
>once....within an hour we received the e-mail stating that the operator list
>from NQ4I would be checked and that if the spotter was an op at NQ4I we
>could expect the full wrath of the ARRL contest branch!
>
>Nothing in this hobby has peeved( the word I have in mind is quite a bit
>stronger too) me more....than this e-mail...it's one thing to hold us all
>to high standards...but wholly another to try to intimidate and badger any
>member of the ARRL and a contest participant....I checked the recent spots
>of another of our competitor's and noticed that in the course of 15 minutes
>he had been spotted by two K1's and a W2...at this rate the packet police
>must really be swamped with responsibility to get e-mails out to as many
>violaters of the self spotting rule...maybe thats why I have not received a
>response...my team is guilty before any evidence is presented!
>
>de Rick NQ4I
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