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
Regarding "Operator A" see FCC 97.119(a). Even if the equipment is club owned, by using his own callsign he has made the station "his station" and assumed the role of control operator. See 97.3(a)(13
Regarding "Borrowed calls" I think the case can be made that this is technically legal. If I designate you as the control operator of my station, you (subject to the privileges of your own operator l
Ria you added: "I also hear of contesters (particularly in WPX) "borrowing" calls. Not club calls but individual calls. Said operators are sometimes halfway across the country. Is this legal?" In mos
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