[CQ-Contest] What Is a Contact?

[M.Sivcevic, VK4DX]

The thing is that FCC rules apply only to the USA, not the rest of the 
world.

73 Mike, VK4DX

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Larry N7DF wrote:
 > 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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