[CQ-Contest] IARU HQ Callsigns

[Hank Greeb]

As stated, the question seems to besimilar to "how many pins can dance 
on the head of an Angel."

That's why I rarely contribute to this forum.

Perhaps thequestion should be:  Ifthere 24 stations IDing themselves as 
LR1A through LR1Z are all worked on 10 meters, either SSB or CW, would 
the multiplier be 1, 2, or 24 for Argentina's HQ station?  Methinketh 
that there could easily be more than one "HQ" station, but it would be 
up to the arbiters of the contest to determine the number ofHQ 
multipliers.  I don't see any prohibition for multiple HQ stations from 
an IARU entity.  But, then, I see things through the fog of cataracts 
and other infirmaries of age, including rose coloured glasses.

72/73 de n8xx Hg
QRP >99.44% of the time

On 7/9/2013 12:00 PM, cq-contest-request at contesting.com wrote:
> Message: 4 Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 19:20:55 -0700 From: Tree 
> <tree at kkn.net> To: cq-contest at contesting.com Subject: [CQ-Contest] 
> IARU HQ Callsigns Message-ID: <20130709022055.GA18235 at kkn.net> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Saw this recently posted:
>> >The Radio Club Argentino LU4AA and the LUCG (LU Contest Group) put together a team for the upcoming IARU HF Championship next weekend and several  stations will be giving out the RCA multiplier.
>> >
>> >Stations as follows - hosts in parenthesis - :
>> >
>> >10 SSB: LR1D
>> >10 CW LR2H
>> >15 SSB LR0H
>> >15 CW LR0F
> ...
>
> This appears to conflict with the following rule for the IARU contest:
>
> "4.3.3. Only one HQ station callsign per member society per frequency band is permitted."
>
> The rules can be found here:http://www.arrl.org/iaru-hf-championship
>
> I would interpret a "frequency band" as being all of 10 meters for example.
>
> This is likely the case because of the way the multiplier rule is worded:
>
> "Multipliers: The total number of ITU zones plus IARU member society HQ stations worked on each band (not mode)."
>
> In the case above - I am sure the intent of the rules would not have been to count LR1D and LR2H as two multpliers in the contest.
>
> Tree N6TR