[CQ-Contest] CQWW - Excessive Bandwidth

[w5gn at mxg.com]

WIDE or any characters won't work in contests where the
exchange is always numeric, where letters are expected
to be cut numbers and not text.

I discovered this in the Ukraine contest this past weekend
when I complained that the cut numbers did not work in
that exchange field, only to be reminded that the UR station's
exchange is their character oblast abbreviation, so cut numbers
could not be translated in the exchange field!  Duh!

Barry, EI/W5GN

-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Rick Kiessig
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 3:24 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQWW - Excessive Bandwidth

I like the idea of letting the other party know their signal is wide.
However, adding a suffix to the call seems likely to cause headaches when it comes to things like uploading to LoTW and so on -- as well as potentially conflicting with existing suffixes.

What about including the word "WIDE" in the exchange? It doesn't happen often enough (to me, at least) that would affect my rate.

For SWLs or those working assisted, adding the word "WIDE" as a comment on spots they send out would also be helpful. Contest sponsors could easily collect spots for the duration of the contest, and search for that keyword.

In fact, both of these could be done outside of contests, as well.

73, Rick ZL2HAM / ZM1G


-----Original Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Paul O'Kane
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 3:06 AM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] CQWW - Excessive Bandwidth


The CQWW sponsors are leading the way in defining and, hopefully, clamping down on unsportsmanlike conduct.

They say " "Examples of unsportsmanlike conduct include.....
5. Signals with excessive bandwidth (e.g., splatter, clicks)"

Anyone who uses SDR-based panadaptors, including the Elecraft P3, can recognise and measure wide signals instantly - by just looking at them.

It seems to me that if we had an agreed method of reporting excessive bandwidth, contest sponsors could confirm it for themselves by checking their SDR recordings - using times and frequencies from our Cabrillo logs.

The question arises, how would each of us indicate wide signals from other stations we work - not to mention the ones we might prefer not to work.

The ones we work are easy.  My suggestion is to add /Q to the callsign logged.  I'm using Q, because it cannot be confused with another country's callsign - no calls begin with Q.  There may be implications for dupe-checking with some software, but nothing that can't be supported with a few extra lines of code.

There are other options, but I would not consider varying the usual 59(9) reports because it would take longer.

73,
Paul EI5DI
















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