Hi Bob, Thank you for your detailed explanation. I guess what concerns me and some others, particularly non-US amateurs is that the DQ list was solely competitors outside of CONUS and Canada. Persona
I was in this situation and I just logged them and moved on. Who am I to know the rules in someone else's country? _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@c
I"m not sure what a hall of shame online would accomplish, but I guess if you want to go zero tolerance with rules violations this would be the way to go. My only stipulation is that the rules violat
If someone does it repeatedly, they are very likely doing it deliberately, for example. A one-off is probably an accident. Twice and more, not so much. Also, a low scorer with low hours, deliberate o
If it was an honest mistake (eg VFO out of band, op didn't realize) it is. There is NO need to publicly shame people for an honest mistake such as that. Especially if it's the first time they've done
In this case the CC didn't really uncover much in the USA. There are several stations who have cheerleaders spotting them. It's a fairly common practice, even encouraged as a way to boost scores. I
How does your friend know you came on a new run freq? There's some behaviour that follows the pattern of cheerleading and some that follows the pattern of cheating. A friend finding you on her own an
These days I would not put a newbie on CQ World War. I would instead direct them to a smaller contest where we don't have this much disagreement. Then again we do sometimes such as with the IARU HF c
The rules should be that any intentional excursion outside the bands should result in the log being reclassified as a checklog. Repeated violations can result in a DQ and ban. At least that's the way
We live in very exciting times and I predict that for serious stations, tube amps will soon be a thing of the past. IMD of the Elecraft amp should be very good. It uses two devices instead of one. Wi
It means you can connect 2 radios to one amp and do SO2R without a 2nd amp N2RJ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesti
Not really intended to bash the contest committee but this is an actual legitimate question. Operator A is a General, operates club station with extra class trustee in CQWW as a single op. Gets DQ fo
Does it have the ability to adjust itself via CAT? That is recommended for solid state amps, especially in SO2R configuration. N2RJ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing
This is why I don't believe that a single auto tune tube amp by itself can be used for SO2R. Even 2 seconds of tuning is too long. Solid state is just a quick band change, instantaneous. Still, some
Your take on operator B is exactly as I suspected. Thanks Hans. For what it's worth, both situations have been happening in CQWW and other contests for a very long time. We saw one DQ this year. I pr
I use eqsl. I don't mind it for that award. You must be AG and bronze eQSL member which is minimum $5. They just need a copy of license. I'm not starting a "DXCC should use eQSL" discussion here. Jus
If eQSL can do it with a flat fee of $5 for two years for unlimited award apps, why not ARRL? Maybe it costs more at ARRL, but I'm missing the obvious here... I don't expect them to lower it that low
Multi single can be viewed either of two ways: Single station where operators take turns in the chair. This can be one or more transceivers. Single station where only one transmitted signal is allowe
CQWW tried that, I believe. It allowed such things as remote receivers in other countries. It was called the "extreme" category. Only difference was that rule breakers in other categories were still
The big difference between M/2 and M/S is that you can have more than one station running. So there is really not much difference between a SO2R M/S and a SO1R M/S with a 2nd mult station. Ria, N2RJ