[CQ-Contest] Disqualified callsigns - CQ WW SSB contest.

[Steve London]

One of those DQed is a YB who made about 50 QSO's, and may not even 
understand what self-spotting is. But the worst that happens to a USA 
contester, who knowingly or carelessly works stations out-of-band, is 
that he/she loses the QSO and gets a slap on the wrist.

That's simply a message to USA contesters that, in the future, they have 
nothing to lose (except possibly the QSO) if they work stations out-of-band.


Steve, N2IC


On 04/13/2017 03:50 AM, w5ov at w5ov.com wrote:

> Out of band:  Most out of band qsos were disallowed for those who were out of band for the QSO in question – this was applied globally.  Often, one party is legal on a frequency, another is not.  Those who operated out of their band were penalized and given no credit for those qsos / mults.  No one was DQed for this offense regardless of country / zone etc.  Some who exhibited excessive carelessness about this matter were given formal warnings.

> Along with the other absurdities, the thought that USA / VE was given any favor is again completely without any merit.