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

[Steve London]

Notice that I didn't specifically say that any out-of-band QSO should 
result in a DQ.

A more appropriate penalty, for CQWW, would be to deduct 3 more QSO's 
for every out-of-band QSO. This is the same penalty as a not-in-log 
(NIL) QSO. This would be a logical penalty for an out-of-band QSO, since 
the QSO should never have occurred in the first place. An even great 
deterrent, short of a DQ, would be to deduct 3 additional multipliers if 
the out-of-band QSO resulted in a new multiplier.

73,
Steve, N2IC

On 04/13/2017 10:34 AM, Stephen Hicks, N5AC wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 9:03 AM, Steve London <n2icarrl at gmail.com
> <mailto:n2icarrl at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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.
>
>
> ​I'd like to suggest that wandering out of band during a contest, while
> illegal and against contest rules, could happen to any contest team.
> Picture four guys who have planned to run a contest for a year and they
> have allowed a new, aspiring, contester to join them.  In the heat of
> battle this individual makes a contact out of band.  It is caught and
> not duplicated and represents an "honest mistake."  I wouldn't DQ
> someone for this.
>
> On the other hand, self-spotting is an overt action that would not
> likely be accomplished "accidentally."  Anyone who has participated in
> contests knows it's against the rules and a DQ-level event, primarily
> because of the multiplicative effect (each deviation from the rule can
> result in many contacts, quickly).  If someone is new and does it, not
> having read the rules or realizing it's an issue, they simply blow their
> first contest, apologize and move on.  Yes, that sucks, but you're
> likely to make this mistake only once.
>
> I think the character of these is different enough to warrant different
> behaviors from the organizers.  Just to add to both of these, ask any
> accomplished contester these two questions: "Have you EVER transmitted
> out of band?" and "Have you EVER self-spotted in a contest where it's
> against the rules."  My bet is that most will fess up to the first and
> say they accidentally tuned up out of band or hit the wrong button on
> the radio, etc. and have done this at least once, said "whoops!" and
> fixed the problem.  I suspect the answer to the latter is "never."
>
> Steve​, N5AC
>
>