A call history file comprised of the combination of the prior logs of
many other contesters (which is readily available and used by many) is
exactly that, though. Lots of folks excuse it by saying that it isn't
100% reliable and that you still have to be able to verify the info ...
but if it didn't provide actual help people wouldn't use it, and just
because an attempt to cheat isn't 100% successful it doesn't mean it
wasn't an attempt to cheat.
Now before anyone gets all bent out of shape by my terminology, I will
have to say that every contest sponsor clearly knows that call history
files are being used and to my knowledge none (at least of the majors)
have ever come out against it. That makes them tacitly approved in
spite of the wording of their rules, and is therefore not actually cheating.
But I still don't like it and I still don't use one ... not even one
comprised strictly of my own prior logs.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 6/3/2023 10:07 AM, rjairam@gmail.com wrote:
SCP only helps with the callsign. While purists would rather not have even
that, it’s a far cry from getting someone’s zone, grid square, state etc
from a callsign database.
Ria
N2RJ
On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 9:24 PM Art Boyars <artboyars@gmail.com> wrote:
On the N1MM reflector somebody asked about how to use the "QRZ" button
during the contest for calls that don't appear in the "check" window. I
guess he was talking about the SCP or CHF data files loaded into N1MM.
A few people commented that looking it up on QRZ.com (or some other online
database??) during the contest was against the rules.
I don't see any difference between using an online databas and using SCP
and CHF (except that SCP/CHF is faster).
What do you wise people think?
73, art K3KU
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