I suggest that as long as YOU aren’t doing anything wrong, work ‘em and move on.
The lawbreaker is the American op outside his band. That should be a problem
for the FCC to deal with, not foreigners. Canadian hams are not breaking
Canadian law when working OOB Americans.
If the problem is such that the contest organizer sees fit to nullify both
sides of the QSO, so be it, but at least you’re not getting dinged for NIL
penalties.
ARRL SS rules are silent, other than to say operators must stick within the
confines of their countries’ laws.
73, kelly, ve4xt
> On Oct 28, 2025, at 12:29 PM, Dave G. ve3kg@myrac.ca
> <goodwindave.73@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> John K1AR said:
>
> “Yes, we only remove the offender's QSO, NOT both. We don't expect ops to
> adjudicate OOB QSOs in real-time on the receiving side.”
>
> Great! That seems like good judgement by the adjudicators. But they are
> missing another aspect:
>
> When I get OOB callers from the US, I often tell them “you’re outside the
> US phone band.” The usual response is silence, but more than a few delete
> the QSO from their logs. In adjudication, I get assessed a penalty for
> “NOT IN LOG” QSOs, even though I worked the station.
>
> So, should I work the OOB Yanks, and say nothing? Should I refuse to log
> the OOB Yanks? Their repeated calls get annoying, sometimes quite
> desperate and often a source of QRM.
>
> This is tangly stuff.
>
> 73,
>
> Dave VE3KG
> (At VE3VN this past weekend)
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