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Contesting Online Survey
Survey Question
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Current Survey Question
Do you plan to enter the CQ WW
DX Contest?
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Recently the RDXC committee
reclassified P3F to
high
power from low power without
publicly
providing strong evidence
that any
infraction had occurred.
They
concluded was that the
contestant was
running HP on 80/40m but
not full-time, just 10
minutes here
and there without any
convincing
evidence. It appears they
used the RBN as their source
of information. Should the
RXDC
contest have
to publicly provide
convincing
evidence before
reclassifying a
station from LP to HP?
2021-10-27
Randy, K5ZD, wrote a sidebar
titled "
Convergence and Change" in
the 2015
CQWW CW printed results in
CQ
magazine. He wrote that the
"convergence of personal
computers,
Internet access,
DX clusters, and CW Skimmer
have
changed the nature of
CW contesting". He goes to
say that it
is "more difficult to police
the line
between the
single operator working
alone and
those who are using the
assistance of DX spotting."
In light of this convergence
and
change is it time to
recombine SO and
SOA into a single category?
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The IARU HF Championship rules say "4.1.3. Use of spotting nets, packet, or multi-channel decoders (such as CW Skimmer) is not permitted. Single-operator stations that use spotting nets, packet or multi-channel decoders will be reclassified to the Multi-operator, Single Transmitter category" Do you think the IARU should have a Single Operator Assisted or Single Operator Unlimited category like the ARRL DX contest?
  Posted: Jul 16, 2012
  (153 votes, 8 comments)
by VE5ZX
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Survey Results
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Definitely Yes
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59% (91)
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Perhaps
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11% (17)
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Not sure
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1% (2)
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Definitely No
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18% (28)
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Don't know
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0% (0)
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Don't care
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10% (15)
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Survey Comments
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UNIQUE Single Op
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I hope ALL contests with a UNIQUE Single-
Operator category. Today, IMO, both actual
criteria for Single-Op and Single-Op Assisted
are anachronistic and results are affected by a
lot of "dark" logs. I'd like the two categories
merged into a more realistic unique SINGLE-OP
one.
Posted by
IT9BLB
on August 30, 2012
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Reality
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Reality is: separating categories using a criteria that cannot be fully proved, makes room for cheaters to cheat, as it has been the case since the inception of the assisted categories. Think right: do like WAE contest organizers. Packet is allowed for all categories. If you use it or not it is just a matter of your likes and dislikes. But no one will be cheating over other fellow contesters. Someone using packet is not an internet contester. It is just a contester using a tool that presents information. We could have used the same way of thinking when computer logging was introduced, saying that those who used it were not real contesters, but computer contesters, taking advantage of auto duping, super check partial features, automatic cw sending and all the stuff the logging software does for the op. Logging software represents a whole lot bigger assistance than packet itself.
Posted by
LU5DX
on August 18, 2012
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Radio skills NOT Internet asistance...
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As yet I am NOT active re contesting but am planning on taking part using CW + RADIO skills as a FUN way of enjoying the hobby and developing my capabilities as an operator after being inactive for a long time. If aids (categories) such as the survey questions introduced, then (in my opinion) the game changes for the worse and maybe one I will not want to play...
Posted by
ZS6RN
on August 13, 2012
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I voted no, personally I'd vote for no spotting of any sort in any contest. These are supposed to be RADIO competitions, not PC/Internet competitions.
Further more I think SO2R operations should be placed in the mulit-transmitter class in all competitions.
One transmitter, one operator, no assistance, anything more should be in some other class.
Posted by
KZ5A
on July 28, 2012
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Yes
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Use of Skimmer or RBN could definitely put up the rate of SO stations. Higher rate makes more fun.
73 Slaw SP2LNW
Posted by
SP2LNW
on July 25, 2012
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I wonder how many people used assistance and
simply didn't report it because there was no
suitable category for it. No single op wants
to compete with Multi stations just because
he checked cluster spots. There may be many
reasons for cluster use, for example to find
DX contacts for diplomas during the contest.
I used it to help learn SO2R. I would leave
unassisted HP category where the top SO's
usually compete and allow the rest to use a
cluster or skimmer with no penalty.
Posted by
k3it
on July 18, 2012
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keep it as it is
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Voted �No�. Hopefully this keep more Single Op participants from using a DX cluster. Really see no fun in cluster stimulated pile-ups in contests like CQWW DX. IMO, time to get a DX contest where no cluster will be allowed at all.
Posted by
vk2imm
on July 17, 2012
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assisted in IARU
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Heard from several that their time was limited, so they would get on to just "hand out a few" and hopefully snag a couple of needed DX. If they use the cluster, they will be classified as Multi-single, and the sponsor will probably never see their logs. Since more logs = better checking, let them have a category, just don't group ALL single ops (assisted and UN-assisted) in the same category.
Posted by
k5er
on July 17, 2012
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