I have to believe this is fancy English. I can't imagine they expect every
single entrant to be making announcements prior to the contest. Sounds like
disclaimer language to me.
--
Mike DeChristopher, N0HI
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Lott" <lottsphoto@gmail.com>
To: "Gediminas Lucinskas" <LY3BA@takas.lt>
Cc: "CQ Contest" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, October 19, 2009 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Do We ever need this?
> *We expect contesters announcing somewhere their Contest plans in advance,
> especially those intending to operate Low Power, QRPp, claiming
> unassisted.*
>
> I understand that to me on DX bulletins and/or other News sites
> like Radio-Sport.net , the ARRL Contest Reflector written by N0AX and even
> your own website or Blog etc
>
> 73
> kg5vk
> steve
> www.sdxa.blogspot.com
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Gediminas Lucinskas <LY3BA@takas.lt>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> When We read recent CQ WW DX Contest rules changes, e.g.
>>
>> "8. A competitor who wishes to be
>> judged for a top score in their category
>> must agree to a potential visitation at any
>> time during the contest by an observer
>> appointed by the CQ WW Contest Committee.
>> Failure of the entrant to respond
>> to our correspondence or to allow an
>> observer full access to the contest QTH
>> may result in the competitor being removed
>> from award eligibility for 3 years.",
>>
>> We expect contesters announcing somewhere their Contest plans in advance,
>> especially those intending to operate Low Power, QRPp, claiming
>> unassisted.
>> Folowing this logic I did try to announce my plans for the nearest CQ WW
>> DX
>> on the Bill's, NG3K WEB http://www.ng3k.com/Misc/cqs2009.html last week.
>> Only few days later I discovered that this WEB
>> http://www.ng3k.com/Contest/consub.html is created only for the
>> announcing
>> some sort of DX operations in the Contest, DX'peditions. We can see
>> following words on the Bill's WEB:
>> "Sorry, but for the most part I can't include SO operations from the more
>> common entities, except in the case of unusual call signs, rarer zones
>> (e.g.
>> CQ zones 02, 19, 23, 29), or other factors likely, in my judgment, to be
>> of
>> interest to the Contest/DX community. To do so would overwhelm the lists
>> with items of little interest to most users and would make list
>> maintenance
>> too time consuming for me. I hope you will understand."
>>
>> So, I wonder how Contest Committee will know about someones "wishes to be
>> judged for a top score in their category"?
>> I don't see any request in the rules to inform Committee or Contest
>> community about these wishes, I can't find right place on the WEB where
>> contesters may share their contest plans. Do We ever need this?
>> Perhaps I'm missing something?
>>
>> 73! Gedas, LY9A SO AB LP Unassisted in CQ WW DX SSB 2009
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