[CQ-Contest] RAC Contest and 160m QSO's

[Kelly Taylor]

There’s no reason one Q can’t count for both if all the exchange info is given/received. Nothing in the rules says QSOs must be exclusive to one contest or another.

The Stew says you have to send grid, but doesn’t say you can’t send province (or name or weather report or whatever), and RAC says you have to send province but doesn’t say you can’t also send grid.

The Salmon Run at one point, maybe still, conflicts with the NA Sprint. I worked guys in both contests; the only stickler was there was nothing compelling the Salmon Runner to QSY after a CQ but that’s his problem not yours. He resolves it simply by not entering the Sprint. But I got my Sprint Q and he got his Salmon Run Q and we both left happy. (Note: Sprint rules say YOU must QSY after a CQ. They don’t say you can only work guys who also QSY after a CQ…)

Perhaps if you’re running at a high rate there’s a disincentive to cross the contest barrier, but there’s no rule forbidding it. There’s also no rule forbidding you from having two logs running at the same time, so you could enter both contests yourself, too.

73, kelly, ve4xt,




> On Dec 18, 2016, at 5:55 PM, VE2TZT <ve2tzt at arrl.net> wrote:
> 
> On my point of view, If I am working the Stew and a RAC Winter contest guy calls me and gives me his grid plus his province, I will answer both being happy to log one more and make someone happy with a multiplier. If they give only the province but not the grid even after I asked them, that's an other question.
> 
> If I just participated to the RAC Winter contest before switching to the Stew and already have a RAC winter contest log, that will not be a big deal, after the Stew contest, to add those few Contacts in my RAC log too for the RAC guys not having those QSO's NIL.
> 
> It is just a question of flexibility versus rigidity.
> 
> Gilles VA2EW
> 
> 
> 
> On 18/12/2016 15:07, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:
>> Any QSO's made with me last evening on 160m will NOT count as RAC contest
>> contacts as I never once sent "NB", but only sent my grid square as I was
>> doing the Stew Perry contest only.
>> 
>> When I was running, I had a number of VE's send me their province and when I
>> replied with only my grid, they seemed quite happy to bag NB as a last
>> minute mult on Top Band.
>> 
>>  
>> Sorry - doesn't work that way.
>> 
>>  
>> Mike VE9AA
>> 
>>  
>> Mike, Coreen & Corey
>> 
>> Keswick Ridge, NB
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