[CQ-Contest] CQ WW Rules Changes

[Bill Tippett]

I noticed this from today' s The Daily DX:

>During the Contest forum at Dayton last weekend CQ WW DX Contest
Director K5ZD, Randy Thompson, did an interesting presentation on the
best contest in the world, the CQ World Wide. He mentioned several
changes that will take place starting this year. The busted QSO
penalty will change from the removal of three QSOs to the removal one
(sic...
probably meant to be "of") two. In addition the CQ WW Contest is working
on new DQ criteria for dirty signals (i.e. wide signals, etc.). Full
details are
expected to be announced well before the contests.

I'm surprised there's been no discussion of the busted QSO penalty change.  Was
this the decision endorsed by the full committee?  IMHO this is one of the
unique features of the CQ WW that encourages logging accuracy.  Changing
the penalty from 3 QSOs to 2 may seem insignificant but it potentially
violates the integrity and consistency of past records, which I feel should
not be done without careful consideration and discussion.

I applaud the move to DQ based on dirty signals.  With the advent of SDR
spectrum recordings, I hope this can be enforced.

73,  Bill  W4ZV