The
CQ World Wide DX Contest Committee is making a concerted effort to crack down
on cheating. After disqualifying more than 50 logs from the 2014 contest and banning one station from competing for the next five years due to alleged "log padding" - or adding contacts that were never made - the committee said it would test new software designed to detect the practice by running it on all logs submitted in the past four years.
Any logs that show evidence of adding unverifiable QSOs will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis, according to a post on the CQWW blog by Contest Director Randy Thompson, K5ZD. See August CQ's "Contesting" column for an in-depth discussion of honesty and cheating in contesting.
