In the day of the pencil I think many of us had to go over the logs to
make them legible! I doubt the logs were poured over as much as they
are now but would doing this be a rule violation today?
When so many people have issues with the way the rules are written, we
do have a problem.
How are we to judge the writing of a rule when we don't have a clue what
they are trying to stop.
The process is broken, so we get rules that people clearly do not
understand.
K5ZD hit the nail on the head with the dual decoders. It probably
exists today and will only get better and better down the road. Decoding
software seems to be taking giant leaps and bounds.
On 5/23/2015 9:42 PM, KQ2O via CQ-Contest wrote:
Personally I have never understood why the rules (or before rules, the
opinions) treat post contest (let alone during contest) editing of logs before
submission as a no-no. not talking about padding of course, but correcting
typos. I always thought the contest was about how many folks you could work as
well as multipliers and related strategy - NOT about your typing skills. Seems
to me if you notice an error in your log after the contest (or during), you
should fix it so it conforms to what you actually did during the contest, who
you REALLY worked or the REAL exchange, not leave the wrong info in the log.
besides affecting your score, plus penalties, failure to fix a simple logging
error also penalizes the guy on the other side of the qso who did nothing
wrong! he/she gets a NIL + penalty.
as for recording the contest, seems to me we are going way overboard on "security". this
is a fun hobby not a life and death operation. can't help but think this comes from the TO7A
debacle. I think imposing another requirement on very many contesters when only a very few are
cheaters is foolish, especially since the cheaters always find workarounds - e.g. excess power,
remote receivers, etc., none of which are detectable, ordinarily, to continue on their ways.
probably will figure out how to workaround the recording as well. would make much more sense to
impose stronger "punishment" when someone is caught cheating - e.g. TO7A type cheater
should be banned for life from all contests run by same sponsor (and maybe other sponsors would
;piggyback), and have any prior submissions retroactively DQed, and records expunged. lesser
offenses would have appropriate penalties.
as an aside, seems like the log reviewers are very expert at what they are
doing even without recordings, and have developed fine technology to detect
rule breaking. they are to be commended.
Hank KF2O
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