I gave out a RS report 2898 times last week as TO5A. You figure as to whether
I would have liked to have avoided having to have done this. I was going to
respond to 4O3A's comments as to whether a RS(T) was necessary for a valid
exchange to occur. I was considering whether such an omission might be
considered a "busted" QSO. My reelection over the years was that CQWW and
CQWPX have penalized logs for "busted" QSOs at a rate of removing 3 QSOs for
each "busted" call. I wanted to review this penalty procedure in the WPX
contest rules. http://www.cqwpx.com/rules.htm ;. Much to my surprise, I
could not find anything abut this procedure. I then checked the rules for
CQWW- http://www.cqww.com/. The same results. The ARRL general Contest rules
state:
7. Disqualification and Penalties:
7.1. If the claimed score of a participant is reduced by 2% or more, the
entry may be disqualified. Score reduction does not include correction of
arithmetic errors.
7.2. Score reduction may be made for taking credit for unconfirmed QSOs or
multipliers, duplicate contacts or other scoring discrepancies.
7.2.1. Duplicate QSOs in electronic log file are considered zero point QSOs
and are not penalized.
7.3. If a paper entry with more than two-percent duplicate contacts left in
the log is detected, it will be automatically disqualified.
7.4. If an entry in which more than 2% "rubber clocking" is detected,
(altering the actual time to increase the operating time so that it is greater
than the allowable limit) it will be automatically disqualified.
7.5. Participants that are disqualified will be barred from submitting an
entry in the next annual running of that specific contest; for example,
disqualification from the 2000 Phone SS prohibits submission of an entry for
the 2001 Phone SS, but 2001 CW SS participation is allowable.
7.6. Call signs of all disqualified participants will be listed in the QST
contest report.
7.7. Any participant on the borderline of disqualification, but not actually
disqualified. may receive a warning letter.
7.8. In a paper log, for each duplicate contact that is claimed for credit,
each miscopied call sign or each busted exchange that is removed from the log
by HQ, three additional contacts will be deleted as a penalty. In electronic
logs, for each duplicate contact that is claimed for credit, each miscopied
call sign or each busted exchange that is removed from the log by HQ, one
additional contact will be deleted as a penalty. The penalty will not be
considered part of the 2% disqualification criteria. The rules are the rules.
Oh, it would be nice if they were in the rules. There is a good reason our
hobby is called "amateur" radio! 73, Albert
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