[CQ-Contest] Do We ever need this?

[Steve Lott]

*We expect contesters announcing somewhere their Contest plans in advance,
especially those intending to operate Low Power, QRPp, claiming unassisted.*

I understand that to me on DX bulletins and/or other News sites
like Radio-Sport.net , the ARRL Contest Reflector written by N0AX and even
your own website or Blog etc

73
kg5vk
steve
www.sdxa.blogspot.com


On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Gediminas Lucinskas <LY3BA at takas.lt> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> When We read recent CQ WW DX Contest rules changes, e.g.
>
> "8. A competitor who wishes to be
> judged for a top score in their category
> must agree to a potential visitation at any
> time during the contest by an observer
> appointed by the CQ WW Contest Committee.
> Failure of the entrant to respond
> to our correspondence or to allow an
> observer full access to the contest QTH
> may result in the competitor being removed
> from award eligibility for 3 years.",
>
> We expect contesters announcing somewhere their Contest plans in advance,
> especially those intending to operate Low Power, QRPp, claiming unassisted.
> Folowing this logic I did try to announce my plans for the nearest CQ WW DX
> on the Bill's, NG3K WEB http://www.ng3k.com/Misc/cqs2009.html last week.
> Only few days later I discovered that this WEB
> http://www.ng3k.com/Contest/consub.html is created only for the announcing
> some sort of DX operations in the Contest, DX'peditions. We can see
> following words on the Bill's WEB:
> "Sorry, but for the most part I can't include SO operations from the more
> common entities, except in the case of unusual call signs, rarer zones (e.g.
> CQ zones 02, 19, 23, 29), or other factors likely, in my judgment, to be of
> interest to the Contest/DX community. To do so would overwhelm the lists
> with items of little interest to most users and would make list maintenance
> too time consuming for me. I hope you will understand."
>
> So, I wonder how Contest Committee will know about someones "wishes to be
> judged for a top score in their category"?
> I don't see any request in the rules to inform Committee or Contest
> community about these wishes, I can't find right place on the WEB where
> contesters may share their contest plans. Do We ever need this?
> Perhaps I'm missing something?
>
> 73! Gedas, LY9A  SO AB LP Unassisted in CQ WW DX SSB 2009
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