[CQ-Contest] Excessive Bandwidth Rule was: Re: Suggestion for Cabrillo -- and the phone skimmer, new idea

[Pete Smith N4ZR]

Not only that, but the number of awards thereafter could be halved, 
saving ARRL and other societies lots of money.

But seriously, folks, can you imagine the mess that would result if the 
same phone ops who "amuse" us with their lousy audio added either 
subaudible tones or 100 wpm CW to their awful signals.

I'm waiting with interest to see whether CQWW follows through on rule 
XII (A) (5) and disciplines at least a few stations for 
excessivebandwidth.  I'm not interested in outing a list of those 
disciplined, necessarily, but I hope at least the number of actions 
taken is made public, so that people know the committee is serious.  
With the tools now available, in particular whole contest recordings and 
SDR panadaptors, it should be possible to objectively define excessive 
bandwidth (e.g., level in dB relative to peak amplitude, versus 
frequency difference).

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 4/10/2015 12:55 AM, Bokverket wrote:
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> Ämne: Suggestion for Cabrillo -- and the phone skimmer, new idea
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> Rarely do one's wishes be fulfilled so soon, even retroactively!
>
> Goran/SM0DRD, who thinks that hte subaudible tones that someone mentioned
> would be a great step towards a quick realization of the phone skimmer. But
> even better would be *** combining cw and SSB into one signal ***  The cw
> could be sent at 100 or something wpm like a rattle, just as with those
> obsolete spy transmissions. It won't disturb the audio since there is so
> much overdrive noise already, and can then be detected easily by a new
> version of the cw skimmer.
>
> But what's more, we could halve the number of contests!!! Save countless
> $$'s and marriages.  And for die-hard cw only people, the number of contacts
> will increase and the extra transmitted phone messages can be automatically
> generated.
>
> 73,
> Goran/SM0DRD
>
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