N2RJ pointed out: <snip> Too late. The CoAs have been blessed by all three Regions & IARU AC in its recent meeting noted this. The damage is done. The IARU bus by its own admission is driven by ARRL.
As PA5KT noted, the chap operating remote in EU from USA, like his other remote contesting efforts, is not so much of a big deal as from what I can tell he does not submit entries & if he did, they p
http://www.iaru-r1.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=524:cqww-160-band-segment-violations&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50 "CQWW 160m band segment violations Written by Hans PB2T Monday,
Thing is, as 5B4AIZ said in his post: Participants aren't "equal". An RX9T or RA3A will not be called in RDXC by some of the non-combatants that will call a 5B (or, from my own experience, a VR, XX o
UA9CDC added: In RDXC, the exchange includes a serial number. How to determine serial numbers sent by non-combatants in Qs that were derived from participants' logs? It also seems to be a bit of a ch
There are two schedules per year, not four. The number of scheduled hours of b'cast in 7100-7200 kc coordinated by HFCC (which covers something like three-quarters of what is transmitted on SW appare
N4ZR suggested to EI5DI: I don't see the rules preventing the abuse of spotting I see around here (to draw attention to oneself). And that is an abuse that can be easily seen. The other abuse of spot
Somewhere in the noise I saw K9NW say: Used to be that getting spotted was fun. It actually helped & was welcome. But then it started to go pear-shaped, must have been by around the turn of the mille
Dave: I'd be happy to have a go. 73, Brett/p. _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ-Contest@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
AB7E said to himself: Sadly, it doesn't seem to be having an impact on dodgy spotting around here. What is perhaps one of the most-often-mentioned dodgy spotters in the reports is from around here &
W2ID further gets his head around it all: Spot on, mate. The problem is that no contest rule is clear enough & deals with what needs to be dealt with, this leaves room for all the interpretation we s
Root problem shown to us previously here: http://lists.contesting.com/_cq-contest/2002-09/msg00130.html Where EI8IC shared this quote from then-IARU president W4RA: purpose concerned, the boundaries
K1MK added: R1's HF Managers Handbook is not referred to in the rules for the IARU HF Championship. Seems a bit much to expect anyone to look to that as a reference, most of world is outside R1. As o
From http://www.cqwpx.com/blog/?p=69 "Sentiment is still in favor of keeping the categories separate, but it is getting closer. The WPX RTTY contest only has one single operator category and does not
"* New qualifying contests are All Asian DX, NAQP, and Oceania DX." AA final scores = claimed scores... or at least that was the case for my mine the last few years I worked it. Might as well have Po
There is a big difference between the operator somehow finding out himself that there is energy on some frequency & figuring out what that energy might be by himself, compared to being told somehow t
Like most contest rules - which I note seem to be mostly written in USA - the SPTBDC seems to adopt the same look-for-the-bomb instead of look-for-the-bomber approach to airline safety. These contest
Yes, that would be the heart of the problem, as the operator in that case had nothing to do with finding the station to work (or not to work - avoiding wasting your time calling somebody you have alr
Based on http://ham-blog.de/wp-content/images/xe1-dl6kac1.jpg it seems any visitor to XE with one of these temporary permits couldn't legitimately participate in a "Dx contest" under any circumstance
Read that again, but don't say "RDXC" when you come across it. Sound familiar? I would love to compare notes with SM6LRR over a few beers, about what it is like living in a civil society where some a