Has WAE or any contest organization penalized folks for not following the IARU
band plans?
Has there ever been any penalties levied against a contester by any official
IARU organization?
Julius Fazekas
N2WN
Tennessee Contest Group
http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html
http://groups.google.com/group/tcg1?hl=en
Tennessee QSO Party
http://www.tnqp.org/
Elecraft K2/100 #4455
Elecraft K3/100 #366
Elecraft K3/100 #1875
--- On Wed, 12/2/09, VR2BrettGraham <vr2bg@harts.org.hk> wrote:
> From: VR2BrettGraham <vr2bg@harts.org.hk>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] IARU band plans - just what are they?
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 10:04 AM
> A while back there was some
> discussion here about the IARU R1 band
> plan, as a result of DARC adopting the R1 band plan in the
> WAE rules.
> Here is a post to that thread by DL6KVA:
>
> http://search.contesting.com/archives/html/CQ-Contest/2009-07/msg00248.html
>
> In the upcoming IARU R1 HF committee meeting, DARC has put
> forward a paper on band plans, which can be found here:
>
> http://iaru-r1.org/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=173&func=download&id=294&chk=21d786e3ee7686357f4e705dec541e6b&no_html=1
>
> In case that link doesn't work, try this: http://tinyurl.com/yf8l69w
>
> In this paper, DARC seems to acknowledge that IARU band
> plans are
> just recommendations.
>
> However, the IARU R1 band plan is now part of the WAE
> rules, so it is
> no longer just a recommendation.
>
> And it is applied to all, not just R1.
>
> Is there any other activity in amateur radio that has IARU
> band plans
> forced upon it like is being done to radiosport?
>
> Introduction
>
> The objective of the Cavtat recommendations CT08_C4_Rec_15
> and
> CT08_C4_Rec_16 is to leave parts of each HF band free of
> contest
> activity.
>
> Background
>
> Although the WARC bands are free of contests, they cannot
> serve in
> all circumstances the need of non-contesters (due to
> propagation, skip
> etc). The objective of contest preferred segments,
> established in the
> band plan in the mid-eighties, is to separate non-contest
> activity from
> contest activity. As the band plans are recommendations
> only, and
> some bands do not have contest preferred segments, contest
> organizers
> should be encouraged to include band sections to be used
> within the
> rules of the contest. This should be made with due
> consideration to the
> number of expected participants in the contest. DARC would
> like to see
> a detailed summary of the IARU Region 1 contests rules and
> start an
> exchange of experiences concerning this proposal.
>
> Recommendation
>
> That the HF Committee is analyzing the current situation.
>
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