Mike, I think that this idea is DOA.
1) In the whole universe of contesters for any given worldwide or
continental-scope contest, there is an almost invisible fraction of players who
will go to the medal stand. These folks (mostly) know who they are, and they
would observe the 48-hour-prior registration deadline.
2) Some other small fraction, hopefuls, rising stars,
soldiers-who-always-follow-orders, etc., would take enough time to sift through
the rules and discover this “Register to Play” rule, and comply.
3) The remainder of us “Joe Sixpack” guys who drop in to just make a few Q’s,
to practice for a different contest, to contribute some points to Minnesota
Wireless, to fill up some zone-dxcc-iota-state band/mode slots, or to
(whatever), would ignore (or maybe not even know about) this rule, and would be
shunned as “score reductions” and this reflector would be graced by yet one
more persistent thread with a subject line about “My Q wasn’t good enough for
them”.
73, de Hans, KØHB
"Just a boy and his radio"™
From: W0MU Mike Fatchett
Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2016 2:09 AM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] DXC Entry Reclassified to High Power
I think this idea could actually work is all entrants were required to
sign up 48 hours prior to the event. 24 hours from the event a list of
entrants would be made available so that you could update your software
to alert you to stations not in the contest and you could choose to work
them or not. It still would not solve the issue where someone fails to
send in a log but if someone took the time to sign up they probably
would send in a log and the organizers would have an email address to
ask for it in the case they forgot, etc.
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