[CQ-Contest] Business as usual.....

[Henry Heidtmann]

I think it stinks.
So then the following is legit?

I 'm on the mult station- call CQ, work EVERYONE, then zero point the
non-mults?
Guys, this is getting silly.
Bob, K3EST----- help!
Henry, N4VHK


k8cc wrote:
> 
> At 08:53 AM 10/31/00 -0500, Henry Heidtmann wrote:
> >         I have to agree with Scott. This is nonsense. If you are not
> > working a mult, as a M/S, you are in clear violation of the rule. I would
> > consider this type of transmission by a mult station "operating outside
> > the limits of your category for the duration of the contest."
> >         I think a similar situation came up several years ago when a qrp
> > op would call CQ, get a station to hear him, then cut the power down to
> > make the qrp qso.
> >         This will turn a M/S into a 2 radio cq machine. Why not just make
> > it like ARRL with the m/2 category? Because its CQWW.
> 
> I am not a lawyer, but if you read the rules the second station is to be
> used to only "work" new multipliers.  This is the way the CQWW committee
> has chosen to define the category - the CQWW rules do not say "only one
> transmitted signal" like the ARRL contest rules say for multi-single, so
> "CQing for mults" is not against the rules.
> 
> By the same logic however, working non-mult QSOs on the mult station would
> appear to be clearly against the rules, even if the QSOs are of no benefit
> to the score (i.e., are set to zero).
> 
> Therefore, it appears that you can CQ for mults, but must turn away any
> non-multiplier QSO.  IMHO, this is unsportsmanlike behavior.
> 
> Dave/K8CC
> 
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Henry Heidtmann, N4VHK
Trustee, W4WS
W4WS Contest Crew
Winston-Salem, NC

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