Late one night in a CW DX contest two years ago I tuned across one of
the top East Coast contest stations (don't ask me which one because
without a recording I'm not going to say) working a moderately rare DX
station on 80m using the contest station callsign. Immediately
afterward the DX station was worked by two other U.S. callsigns in
non-overlapping sequence, each having the EXACT same strength, tone,
pace, and lack of QSB as the first contact. All three contacts were the
only ones I heard being made with the DX at that particular time.
As you say, it doesn't take the internet to cheat, and those with the
motivation and lack of morals to cheat aren't going to care what the
medium is.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 4/15/2012 5:09 AM, Oliver Dröse wrote:
> You don't need remote stations for that, just "good friends". This kind of
> cheating was present already 30 years ago when nobody knew how to spell
> "internet". ;-))
>
> 73, Olli - DH8BQA
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Zack Widup"<w9sz.zack@gmail.com>
> To: "CQ Contest"<cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 5:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Remote Control in Contests
>
>
> I think the suspected situation was NOT that one person ran one or two
> remote stations. I think he suspected that one person, sitting in one
> country and using one station in that country, used another callsign
> that was not for that country.
>
> I have heard this in pileups. A station works some DX and then another
> station with the exact same signal strength, signal qualities and
> voice/Morse characteristics calls the DX with a callsign from a
> different country.
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>
>
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