It’s fairly common to “divine” a partially heard callsign.
If I hear …KU when pointing ESE, I might just try “K3KU 599 04” thinking
there’s a good chance it’s Art.
If I hear …AI, in the mud on 20, I might just try K4BAI 599 04” (John’s got a
great station, but even he would agree our skip zones often don’t line up well)
…6Y is likely AE6Y
I can think of scores of others, but in all cases where the guess was correct,
the contact probably goes like…
me: VE4XT test
him: …6Y
me: AE6Y 599 04
him: R 599 03
me: TU VE4XT test
Andy has no reason to send his call again, so I worked him only having heard a
partial call.
My problem with audio recording as a gold standard is there are lots of ways
for legitimate contacts to look like cheating and lots of ways to make cheated
contacts look legitimate.
I don’t want to write a handbook on cheating, but let’s just say I can think of
many ways to make a fully cheated log sound golden, or if not golden, good
enough to cover any smoking guns.
After all, the audio recording rule “as heard by operator” is as dependent on
the honour system as power levels, not listening during off times and not
watching Cluster. Someone who is going to cheat on power isn’t likely to abide
by “as heard by operator.”
73, kelly, ve4xt
> On Jan 29, 2018, at 8:09 AM, Michael Adams <mda@n1en.org> wrote:
>
> If you log a station without receiving a complete call, it's probable that
> some form of assistance is at work. On more than one occasion, I've worked
> you having only heard your call as "WKI", for example. If the signal
> strength and exchange information matches what I would expect...
>
> I suppose there is a slight chance that one "read" the callsign on a radio's
> spectrum display, while working elsewhere, but that feels like the grey area
> where "unassisted" ends and "assisted" begins.
>
> I suppose also that there's a chance that someone's familiarity with
> contester callsigns is sufficient to achieve the same effect...but I would
> have thought that if that were common, stories of that would already be part
> of contester lore.
>
> --
> Michael Adams | mda@n1en.org
>
> -----Original Message de VE3KI -----
>
>
> But just how would a recording tell them whether you were assisted? Because
> you jumped directly from one S&P QSO to the next without tuning through
> intervening frequencies?
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