[CQ-Contest] 40 Meters SSB

[Alan M. Eshleman]

...advanced and extra class ops are permitted to use phone above *7125*

----- Original Message -----
From: "Albert Crespo" <f5vhj at orange.fr>
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2015 5:09:06 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] 40 Meters SSB

Many USA stations call me below 7150. They call constantly until I tell them they are out of the band and then they usually stop. Sometimes  this happens because of the useage of Internet spotting and just using the mouse to move the transmitting frequency. Whatever, it is a violation of the USA's license.
I find this practice happening more and more. It is clearly cheating if the QSO is claimed for the score . The burden is not on the non USA station to know the frequency allocation of the USA station license.
The software should be progrmmed to catch this nonsense because the logs of both stations should reflect the transmitting frequency.
If the USA station's log does not reflect the correct transmitting frequency, then the log should be considered a check log.
In this age of ham radio software being free or at a very low cost, there is no reasonable excuse for not indicating the transmit frequency.
The few hand written logs that are  submitted should   require the transmitting frequency. Anybody submitting a hand written log and cheats doing so, well that person is just a nutter.
If the software can catch this nonsense, and  if it is a patten and not just a once or twice mistake, then the log should be DQed.
73, Albert, TO5A, 6W1RY, NH7A, etc.
 
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