[CQ-Contest] Sprint QSY Rule

[Tree N6TR]

VE3FU writes:

Do the contest sponsors and/or log checking program actually check logs for 
this rule violation, or do they rely on the honesty of the competitors?

My first question would be - "Why do you ask?".

I will not commment on what the log checking software does or doesn't do
in this respect.  

However, there are various other methods which are effective.  To some
extent, it is self policing.  If you call CQ and work someone, that person
will be taking your frequency.  If you decide to fight them for it, you 
will quickly be creating a bad name for yourself.

In some sprints, we have had listening stations who noted infractions and those
QSOs were removed from the logs.  We don't always do this - but you never know.

Finally, if someone is consistently breaking the rules - we hear about it from
people who heard it on the air.  If we have a handful of stations telling us 
someone was not QSLing their QSOs or something, we have a pretty strong case.

If you look back a year, we did have a disqualification because a station
was transmitting on two bands at the same time.  

So - we rely on the honesty of the competitors - but if you consistently 
break the rules - I am confident you will be caught.

73 Tree N6TR
tree at kkn.net


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>From Mike" <W4EF at dellroy.com  Fri Sep 14 02:03:17 2001
From: Mike" <W4EF at dellroy.com (Mike)
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:03:17 -0700
Subject: [CQ-Contest] WTC, Tesla Cup cancelled
References: <dc.c15d710.28d23ead at aol.com>
Message-ID: <00b701c13cb9$0a4820c0$6401a8c0 at neptune>


Yuri, glad to hear your XYL is safe and sound. You make a good point regarding
the capability of contesters to help with relief efforts. I spoke to a colleague today
who went to high school at Siverson down the street from ground zero. He still has
friends in NYC and said as of yesterday, long distance phone connections into 
Manhattan were still jammed. On Tuesday, there were some gentleman on 14.295
passing health and welfare inquiries into a ham in Manhattan, Tom WQ2O, who was 
able to make local calls where long distance access wasn't available. I am not sure if
this net is still running, but I understand there are several other emergency nets still going 
on 20 meter phone. If you have some spare time, keep your big antennas and contest 
receivers tuned to some of these nets. You may be able to bridge the gap and provide 
relays if propagation is marginal. It may not seem like much at first, but I understand that the 
guys on 14.295 were able to pass well over 100 health and welfare inquiries thru WQ2O
on Tuesday. 

Mike, W4EF.........................


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <K3BU at aol.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:54 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] WTC, Tesla Cup cancelled


> 
> Dear fellow contesters,
> 
> Just like pictures and movies do not do the justice to the beauty of Grand 
> Canyon, in the same way pictures and TV do not do the justice to horrors of 
> WTC and Pentagon destruction. It is horrific!!! 
> 
> I had tears of anger when Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia in 1968, I 
> have more tears seeing the magnitude of destruction in lower Manhattan.
> 
> We are canceling this year's running of Tesla Cup Contest and asking 
> contesters having ability to help in NYC area or elsewhere to help with 
> relief efforts. Now as the cleanup, digout and rescue operations are on the 
> way, it is only the beginning of horrors to unfold. Ham VHF nets are being 
> activated and the help is needed with overloaded comm circuits into 
> Manhattan. Please check into 147,000 PLL 136.8 repeater. There is a need to 
> relieve people, need for relief material, coolers, blankets, T-shirts, etc.
> 
> On the personal note, I was worried sick when my wife was on the way to NYC. 
> They were on the bus in the Lincoln tunnel when it happened. Eventually she 
> made it on foot to the office around 11th St. Got her home Wednesday 4 pm. 
> Rest of our family are all OK. As a true spirited Newyorker, she went to NYC 
> this morning again.
> 
> Please pray for those thousands who lost their lives and for safety of those 
> still alive there. I hope we did not lose too many hams and contesters there.
> 
> Yuri, oK3BU
> 
> 
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