[CQ-Contest] Preview of CQWW Rules 2015

[Michael Adams]

I'll admit that I'd think twice if I were asked to record each and every contest here.  That reluctance wouldn't be due to having anything to hide or finding something offensive about the request; instead, I'd need to think about how to do it without bogging down my shack computer unacceptably...and really, I imagine that if it were more than a trivial effort to set up for recording, the "fun quotient" would shift enough that I might consider limiting myself to checklog submissions to spare myself the hassle.

However, looking at the rules...it doesn't seem like there's currently a proposal for everyone to record their contesting.  Instead, it looks like it's a revision to an existing rule.  Previously, the CQWW Committee could ask a contester to let someone in to look around during the contest.  The rule change makes recording the contest an option instead of permitting a visit.

So far, the Committee hasn't asked to visit my shack to inspect my pipsqueak operation.  (If that changes, I hope they give enough notice to clean up the place!).  I would think that the odds of being asked to make a recording would be similarly low....unless there's a reason to expect questions to be raised.

-- 
Michael Adams | N1EN | mda at n1en.org

-----Original Message-----

The word isn't onerous.  it is Draconian.

This is AMATEUR radio.  We play with toy radios, and a couple weekends a year thousands of the boys and girls all around the world play exuberantly in the ether to see how many other girls and boys we can contact.  The winner gets no money, no endorsement contract, nothing else of value, just bragging rights.

Now we face a requirement to record our playtime, and perhaps having chaperones in our stations.

Fugetaboutit!

73, de Hans, K0HB

-----Original Message-----

It's not a terribly onerous requirement,  fortunately. About all you need is an audio cable from the XCVR Line Out.to the sound card on your logging computer

73, Pete N4ZR
Sent from my iPad

> On May 20, 2015, at 7:47 PM, John Laney <k4bai at att.net> wrote:
>
> The only comment I have on CQ WW rules change is about the Observer 
> Program.  I would be happy to have an observer.  However, I don't know 
> how to record what I hear.  I would need some education and I suppose 
> some sort of recording device (another computer?).  I'd hate to have 
> to take another computer on my trips.  I suppose recording would be 
> different depending on the rig used.  And I wonder about RFI to the 
> recording device.
>
> If the meaning of the rule is that the recording may be requested 
> after the contest is over, that could be very hard on a high scorer 
> who doesn't always record his contests or one who unexpectedly makes a 
> high score.  I do notice that the rule applies to "any entrant" and 
> not just expected high scorers.  If it means that the recording can be 
> requested prior to the contest (not practical since the committee 
> won't know definitely whom they want to record), I'd have no problem with that.
>
> I guess the rule change, if adopted, means that all of us will have to 
> find out how to make a recording and do it for every contest.
>
> 73,
>
> John, K4BAI/PJ4A.