[CQ-Contest] Disqualified callsigns - CQ WW SSB contest.
Steve London
n2icarrl at gmail.com
Thu Apr 13 18:12:16 EDT 2017
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
>
>
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