[CQ-Contest] IARU HQ Callsigns

[Hank Greeb]

OIC. The rules are specific.  It doesn't mean that there cannot be two 
stations on the two modes on simultaneously from ID'ing themselves as 
W1AW, for example, but they should have the same call on the same band.

It seems that the rules are redundant - why not have numerous stations 
from a country IDing themselves as a HQ station, that would mean that 
N8XX could be designated as a HQ station and give out ARRL, why W8XX 
could be on the same band and ID as ARRL but the multiplier would go 
with the HQ ID, NOT the station ID.  That would givepeople in countries 
with a large geographical footprint, such as China, Russian, Canada, 
Australia, Chile, to name a few, a better chance of working their own HQ 
station on all bands.

But, that's up to next year's contest rules deliberation.

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