Scott,
are you saying you removed all the split contacts of Europeans on 40 m?
All the loggers I know do report the RX frequency in the Cabrillo file!
To give you an example:
QSO: 7215 PH 2016-10-29 0719 DH8BQA 59 14 V47T 59 08
That was a perfectly legal QSO with V47T transmitting on 7214,5 and listening
for Europeans on 7070 were I called/worked him.
Just checked V47T's log and obviously they reported their TX frequency even for the split
QSOs. That will make it difficult for you to judge, of course, but just deleting all the QSOs
reported in the logs "out of band" at least on 80 & 40 m is not the right way!
How did you handle things if frequencies were reported differently? To give you
an example with both stations logging their RX frequencies:
QSO: 7207 PH 2016-10-29 0716 DH8BQA 59 14 W1NA 59 05
QSO: 7075 PH 2016-10-29 0717 W1NA 59 5 DH8BQA 59 14
Another perfectly legal split QSO. Would you delete it from my log because I
reported 7207 (my RX frequency as automatically exported as such from
N1MMLogger)? What would you do in W1NA's log?
Thanks & 73, Olli - DH8BQA
(a little late to this discussion, sorry ;-))
Contest, DX & radio projects: http://www.dh8bqa.de
Am 19.04.2017 um 18:57 schrieb Scott Robbins via CQ-Contest:
It's not only the United States. Numerous Europeans and others made contacts
out of band on 40m during the contest as well. There was the option to
disqualify everyone who made even a single out of band contact from the United
States or Europe. This did not happen.
If you submitted a log that said you made a contact out of band and you
reported the frequency accurately in the log as such, we took the position that
you have made an error in violation of the rules *that has been reported
truthfully*. Those contacts were removed from your score. It is at our
discretion to decide this - it's codified in the rules in section XII. D.
If you changed the frequency in your log in an attempt to hide that you made an
out of band contact, now we have a problem that has to be delved into further.
That's the kind of behavior we are trying to stop.
Scott RobbinsW4PA
On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 10:53 AM, ve4xt at mymts.net <ve4xt at mymts.net> wrote:
If there is, as apparently there is, evidence of multiple incursions by US
stations into forbidden band segments, in violation of US law, why zero DQs?
Why isn't the law-and-order contingent clamouring for justice? If the
message is "break the rules and you'll be DQd," isn't US federal law a
significant rule Americans should be expected to obey?
Especially since many, it seems, persisted in completing the Q after
having been warned they were out of band. I can see if a station does it
once, and isn't warned. Hard to claim brain cramp if it's repeated, or is
done after a warning.
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