I like this one,,
But the general rules for ARRL contests say that "3.2.All callsigns and
exchange information must be sent, received, acknowledged and logged correctly
by each station for a complete QSO."
Now does not an exchange require the station to have their call
someplace in the exchange?
How may time have you sat on a freq for five minutes while some station
is running a giant pileup making 10 Q's a min and not once in 5 minutes
have they said their own call sign.
Should any of those Q's even count?
Joe WB9SBD
On 7/14/2010 9:16 AM, John Geiger wrote:
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> --- On Wed, 7/14/10, Ryan Jairam<rjairam@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I really don't care one way or the other about this issue, but I was thinking
> the same thing that you were. The rules are quiet about this issue. I just
> looked over the IARU contest rules (I was surprised I could find them as
> quickly as I could on the crummy new ARRL website) and some parts of the
> rules that might be relevant say:
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> "5.3. A complete exchange must be logged for each valid QSO"
>
> However, it doesn't say that the exchange must be correct for it to be a
> valid QSO, which would allow for fixing errors later.
>
> But the general rules for ARRL contests say that "3.2.All callsigns and
> exchange information must be sent, received, acknowledged and logged
> correctly by each station for a complete QSO."
>
> But is this an ARRL contest? I thought the IARU contest was sponsered by the
> IARU, not the ARRL. I can see that maybe US stations would be bound by this
> general rule, but what about stations outside the US? If it really is an
> IARU contest, any foreign station couldn't be bound by an ARRL rule, and it
> is questionable if stations in the US could be bound by it as well. It also
> says that contest specific rules take precedence over these general rules, so
> there might be a conflict between the 2 as well.
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>
> "10.1. Entries must be postmarked or emailed no later than 30 days after the
> end of the contest (1200 UTC August 10, 2010)"
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> It doesn't say anything about what could or could not be done during those 30
> days. This long of a deadline does kind of suggest that 1200Z on July 11
> isn't the complete end of the contest in terms of reporting.
>
> 73s John AA5JG
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