[CQ-Contest] Category hopping

[David Gilbert]

That's because there are very few competitions that have multiple 
categories simultaneously competing on the same playing field, and those 
that do mostly have mutually exclusive criteria.

Besides, where did you see CR3L declare M/2 before or during the event?  
Their operation was indistinguishable throughout the event in terms of 
which category they qualified for.  You wouldn't even have known what 
their operation looked like at all if they hadn't posted to 3830, which 
is a venue totally separate from their official entry.

Dave   AB7E



On 12/7/2015 4:47 PM, ScottW3TX at verizon.net wrote:
> Is there any other sport where a competitor can start in one category, then in the middle of the race...or even after the race...change their entry category.
>
> I can't think of one, which seems to indicate such action is unsportsman-like at best.
>
> On Dec 7, 2015, at 2:08 PM, Jeff Clarke <ku8e at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> If you do a spot check on CR3L on the DX Summit you will see they were never spotted on more than two bands at a time during the whole contest weekend. If they were really Mult-Multi wouldn't you think they would've been spotted more? Plus they had only 7 operators, which is about what they've had in past years when running M2X.
>
> Now category switching isn't illegal in the rules but don't you think that integrity is on everyone's mind after what happened last year? Maybe it should be added to the rules just like having a bad or wide signal is.
>
> Bad call CR3L team . Maybe you should provide an explanation like the one we were all waiting for from UT5UGR last year. Maybe you had a good reason for doing this?
>
> Jeff
>
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