> Lastly you said: ""The key here is to find, expose, and force out
those
> cheaters who would lessen our enjoyment of our chosen hobby. ""
> NO, the key is to remove the temptation, remove the most blatant form
of
> cheating from contests, DXPacket Cluster. It has no useful purpose,
none,
> zip, nada, in contesting.
>
>
> MAL N7MAL
ah, a real democrat... this explains plenty. Instead of standing up
for personal integrity and holding everyone to their word, you want the
rule makers to add more rules to reduce the contest environment down to
the lowest common denominator where everyone competes on the same level
in a nice safe uncheatable environment.
David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
web: http://www.k1ttt.net
AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
> BULLHEAD CITY, AZ
> www.citlink.net/~suzyq/N7mal.htm
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Robbins K1TTT" <k1ttt@arrl.net>
> To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 10:08 AM
> Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] Packett can cheapen the competitor in all of
us
> ifwe let it...
>
>
> "if we let it." Is the applicable phrase. 'Packet', or probably more
> correctly, 'dx spotting nets', are nothing new. Think back, way back,
> if you were in a populated area before there was packet there were
voice
> repeaters being used to pass dx information between multi ops. Were
> there cheaters in those days who listened in and entered as single op?
> Why are there rules about using non-amateur means to arrange contacts?
> Because there were reports of people phoning up their friends in rare
> countries to get multipliers. Are there ops who have violated power
> limits? Are there ops who have tried to use rare portable prefixes
and
> caused rules to be rewritten or clarified?
>
> The key here is to find, expose, and force out those cheaters who
would
> lessen our enjoyment of our chosen hobby. My tracking of the obvious
> packet cheaters is aimed at just one relatively recent revision to the
> rules in some contest that prevents operators from soliciting contacts
> outside of the contest operating bands/modes or via non-amateur
> means(the internet). Hopefully exposing how easy it can be to track
> this type of cheating will convince some of those who may be inclined
to
> try to cheat this way not to do it. Unfortunately it is not quite as
> easy to expose cheaters who use excess power, or listen during 'off'
> time, or rubber clock band changes, or add contacts, or listen on
> spotting nets as single ops, or exceeds their license limits, or bends
> or breaks any of the other rules.
>
> Obviously the wrtc format is designed to eliminate chances to break
> rules and make sure that the competition is head to head,
unfortunately
> its not possible for world wide contests to put observers in every
> competitor's station. Fortunately there is always at least one person
> who knows that they cheated. Making sure that they know that cheating
> by 'self spotting' is not tolerated and will be at least exposed to
the
> world, and hopefully result in sanctions by the contest sponsors, is
one
> way of putting pressure on them to stay within the lines. Making sure
> that your neighbor who contests with the big switch engaged and then
> enters as low power knows that you know he is cheating is another way.
>
> We must police ourselves, and to do that sometimes is not easy.
>
> David Robbins K1TTT
> e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net
> web: http://www.k1ttt.net
> AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net
>
>
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