[CQ-Contest] Correlation to the "Dueling CQs" situation...

[Lloyd Cabral]

"If you want to give a tip of the hat to the PJ4G folks for finding and exploiting said loophole, well, they or someone on the team did the work and uncovered it.
The important thing is... They did not break the rules, in fact they strictly adhered to the rules, as they were written at the time.  Now that it's been exposed,

the loophole has been closed and the unintended consequence should not happen again.  And that is how it should be.     And that should be the end of that."
  73, ron w3wn


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I wholeheartedly agree with Ron's statement above.     As a correlation to the recent "Dual CQing" issue, in the '90s I took hiatus from

playing radio and went sports car racing at tracks up and down the west coast.      In that sport, it didn't take long to realize that if you

weren't exploring the "gray areas" of the rules you were running at the back of the pack.      Much like the "Dueling CQ" situation, when

things got a little too "progressive" or rules bent a little too far, the rules were clarified, the cars changed back to a correct state and off

you'd go.      Unlike motor sports, there's no up-front Tech Inspection in radio contesting.     Issues such as this will generally only appear

after the fact.      In this case, the rules were modified to delete the "gray area" and life goes on.         No harm, no foul.



                     73 & Aloha,

                   Lloyd   KH6LC