[CQ-Contest] CQ WW Rule Changes

[Luc Moreira]

Hi Guys,

It's an important question: Can I acknowledge with partial callsign
and complete it at QSO end?

73, Luc
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PW7T Team member
WRTC.2006 Brazilian Referee
WRTC.2010 Brazilian Team Leader
PY8AZT (also PT7AG, R37U, ZY7C, PX8C, ZZ8Z)
LABRE, ARRL, CWJF & Fortaleza DX Group Member


2012/10/18 Maarten van Rossum <pd2r.maarten at gmail.com>
>
> Randy,
>
> Is the following still allowed?
> A: "CQ contest PI4DX"
> B: "W3X.."
> A: "W3X? 59 14"
> B: "W3X*YZ* 59 5"
> A: "YZ thanks, PI4DX"
>
> Or do I have to repeat the entire callsign?
>
> 73, Maarten PD2R
> PI4DX Contest group
>
>
> 2012/10/17 Randy Thompson K5ZD <k5zd at charter.net>
>
> > One small correction.  The rules do NOT require both stations to sign their
> > calls on every QSO.  It only asks a station that is Running to correctly
> > say
> > the callsign that they put into their log.  A station that is tuning the
> > band and calling stations is not required to say both calls.
> >
> > Randy, K5ZD
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> > > Charles Harpole
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 12:15 PM
> > > To: Steef
> > > Cc: cq-contest at contesting.com
> > > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW Rule Changes
> > >
> > > Hurray for Randy and the CQ Contest Committee for finally facing the
> > > shady ways contesters have used to artificially raise their scores.  The
> > > best reasons for contesting is that is sharpens skills in passing
> > > messages completely and accurately.  I know my contesting helped me in
> > > running the Hurricane Watch Net.
> > >
> > > Hurray for insisting that every contact contains both call signs on BOTH
> > > ends of the QSO.  Now maybe I will not have to wait hours for some "rapid
> > > runner" to i.d.  Too, it used to be that the FCC REQUIRED stations in
> > > contact to identify both themselves and the station they are in QSO with.
> > > This helped regulatory monitoring but was dropped in favor of only self
> > > identifying.... maybe about the time when FCC monitoring faded away.  I
> > > can see this rule assists the new Contest Committee monitoring, hee hee.
> > >
> > > I was a ham for 30 years before I even heard of these ways of
> > > cheating/shading.  .  Boy, was I innocent, and wondered how I scored so
> > > low!  About that time, I learned of the practice of DX "insurance
> > > contacts"
> > > too.
> > >
> > > 73, Charly
> > >
> > > PS, Dont forget to thank ARRL for taking the lead in these matters...
> > > wait, skip that....  ARRL does not even publish everyone's scores in QST.
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> 73, Maarten PD2R
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