[CQ-Contest] RTTY Sprint Contest -Reply

[James.E.Brown at LRD03.usace.army.mil]

Thanks for the response.  If this has been resolved so definately, it
should be (and should have been) an easy matter to slightly revise
the rules to make it clear.  Yet, the rules remain ambiguous.  Reason?
It may be your understanding, but new contestants try out every
contest, and it may not (probably not) be their understanding from
reading the published rules.  It's a stretch to say that an exchange is a
"solicition", the same as a cq or qrz, and not a leap that the unitiated
would quickly make.  

Who is the sprint contest director?

>>> trey at kkn.net 09/16/97 05:01pm >>>
> On the subject of "round-robin" qsos, this was beat around pretty
> well on the cq-contest reflector last year.  With no resolution,
> however.  

No, the issue of "solicitations" and "round robin QSOs" was resolved
quite clearly years ago in the CW and SSB Sprints.  Round robin
QSOs
are *not* permitted.

A: CQ CQ DE W1AAA
B: W2BBB
A: W2BBB W1AAA 1 PHIL CT
B: W1AAA 1 FRED NY W2BBB
A: dit dit

(Station A CQs, is answered by station B.  A QSO takes place.)

After receiving a call as a result of a solicitation, station A *must*
QSY and make a QSO on another frequency before returning to this
frequency because of the Sprint QSY rule.

C: W3CCC
B: W3CCC W2BBB 2 FRED NY
C: W2BBB 1 GENE MD W3CCC
B: dit dit

(After the A-B QSO, B is called by C and a QSO takes place.)

B must now vacate the frequency.  It doesn't matter that B never said
CQ or QRZ before being called by C.  B's exchange with C
constitutes
"solicitation".  B must make a QSO on another frequency before
returning to this frequency.  If B stays on the frequency and accepts
a call from station D, then B is in violation of the QSY rule.

Furthermore, A is not permitted to hang around and work C on this
frequency, unless A has made another QSO elsewhere in the interim. 
If
A now works C and gives him #2, this is in violation of the QSY rule,
and is known as a "round robin QSO."

Hope this clear things up.

--Trey, N5KO


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