[CQ-Contest] Understanding rules (further to Penalties)

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

At 09:11 AM 9/14/2000 -0400, George Fremin III - K5TR wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 03:32:04PM +0300, Vladimir V. Sidorov wrote:
>
> > The CQWW rules say,  XI.10 Duplicate contacts and broken QSOs penalty: 
> three
> > (3) additional contacts removed.
> > OK, WHAT 3 additional contacts? I can can  see several readings:
>
> > - 3 times the points' value of the QSO being deleted for being dupe or
> > broken.
>
>It is the above - they dont really remove 3 QSOs - they just
>deduct the point value of 3 QSOs from your QSO points.

Which 3 QSOs?  3-pointers, 2-pointers, 1-pointers or 0-pointers?  If I bust 
a stateside callsign (0 points) then they should deduct 0 points from my 
log.  If I bust a European, then I expect 9 points to be removed.

All of this needs to be spelled out EXPLICITLY in the rules!

73 - Jim AD1C


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