Re: [Elecraft] [OT] contest ranking - is this a scam?

2020-08-14 Thread Rose
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020, 20:46 Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2020 14 Aug 19:36 -0500, jack frake wrote: > > From what I'm hearing from my contest buddies, it IS legit... > > Looking through the site I agree. It's quite a project and undertaking. > I did not delve deeply into the details but if I

Re: [Elecraft] [OT] contest ranking - is this a scam?

2020-08-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2020 14 Aug 19:36 -0500, jack frake wrote: > From what I'm hearing from my contest buddies, it IS legit... Looking through the site I agree. It's quite a project and undertaking. I did not delve deeply into the details but if I understand their goal it is to separate the operator skill from

Re: [Elecraft] [OT] contest ranking - is this a scam?

2020-08-14 Thread jack frake
>From what I'm hearing from my contest buddies, it IS legit... On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 6:22 PM Nate Bargmann wrote: > It seems to me to only be a scam if the email is trying to sell > something beyond reason, probing for bank/credit card account numbers, > or seeking personal information

Re: [Elecraft] [OT] contest ranking - is this a scam?

2020-08-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
It seems to me to only be a scam if the email is trying to sell something beyond reason, probing for bank/credit card account numbers, or seeking personal information unrelated to amateur radio. Whether it is of interest to the recipient or not does not automatically make something a scam. I'd

Re: [Elecraft] [OT] contest ranking - is this a scam?

2020-08-14 Thread Alex Malyava
it is kinda legit :) go to https://www.warca.org/ this project was started by Gene W3UA and company, check their "About Us" section. what they do - they try to maintain more or less leveled ratings for contest ops not only by score, but also by power level and location. something like if

Re: [Elecraft] [OT] contest ranking - is this a scam?

2020-08-14 Thread Ian Kahn, NV4C
All, I received the same email several weeks ago. I followed up by Googling the organization and checking out their web site (using a Linux system I didn't care if I had to nuke when done). They are a fairly new group, established within the last year(if I remember correctly). I don't know

Re: [Elecraft] [OT] contest ranking - is this a scam?

2020-08-14 Thread ab2tc
Hi Robert and all, All I know about it is that I got one like that, too, and fairly quickly deleted it. It may not be an outright scam, but it certainly didn't interest me (I am a casual contester participating most years in the major and some not so major contests). I am also not sure if an

[Elecraft] [OT] contest ranking - is this a scam?

2020-08-14 Thread Robert G Strickland via Elecraft
I recently received an email from "World Amateur Radio Contesting Association" informing me that my world ranking [in contests] had just increased 500 or so places. This sure sounds like a scam to me, but thought I'd check around before trashing it. Anyone know anything about this one? Thanks