[CQ-Contest] What Is a Contact?

[David Robbins]

That may work for stations under fcc jurisdiction, but not all countries
have the same identification requirements.  There are also already
plenty of OO's who can send notices about identification problems now.
If you want to spend your contest time policing fcc rules, you are free
to do that and report what ever you find to the contest committees
and/or fcc for action, personally I have better things to do during a
contest.


David Robbins K1TTT
e-mail: mailto:k1ttt at arrl.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-admin at contesting.com [mailto:cq-contest-
> admin at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Larry N7DF
> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 15:47
> To: CQ Conrest reflector
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] What Is a Contact?
> 
> I read the World Above 50 MHz column by W3EP in September QST with
great
> interest.
> 
> The practice of so many stations of not sending their call with each
> contact has been a sore point with me for some time.
> 
> One thing he missed in his write-up is that sending your call with
each
> contact is actually an FCC requirement.
> 
>   §97.119 Station identification.
>   (a) Each amateur station, except a space station or telecommand
station,
> must transmit its assigned call sign on its transmitting channel at
the
> end of each communication, and at least every ten minutes during a
> communication, for the purpose of clearly making the source of the
> transmissions from the station known to those receiving the
transmissions.
> No station may transmit unidentified communications or signals, or
> transmit as the station call sign, any call sign not authorized to the
> station.
> 
> If the contest sponsors were to do their job correctly, they would
include
> this requirement in the contest rules and disqualify any station that
> violated it.  Likewise, DXpeditions should be disqualified from
> accreditation for violation of the requirement.
> 
> What I would like to see is a special group of Official Observers (or
> their equivalent) who would monitor contest operations and DXpeditions
for
> violation of this FCC regulation.  If several such observers
> simultaneously reported repeated violations then the station should be
> disqualified.
> 
> 
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