[CQ-Contest] CQ WW Committee blog post - audio recording

[John Geiger]

When is the groom and maid of honor getting married?  Hopefully not during
a CQ contest weekend.

73 John AF5CC

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Dave Edmonds <dave at pkministrywebs.com>
wrote:

> Great comments... How about this scenario.....
>
> I start working the contest without a recording knowing that I would not be
> able to give it a 'competitive' effort due to the fact that my wife and I
> are attending a wedding on Saturday. We'll on Saturday morning I receive a
> call from the wedding party that the groom ran away with the maid of honor
> and the wedding was canceled..Now I'm not going to the wedding and I can
> devote my weekend to the contest.... Oooopppps... I can't be competitive
> because I could win a top 3 spot in the USA and if I win I could be DQ'ed.
>
> What do I do?
>
> A. Don't work the contest competitively (that's no fun).
> B. Work the contest competitively and submit a check log (that's no
> reward).
> C. Work the contest competitively, submit a log and bet on the contest
> committee not requesting a recording.
> D. Blow off the contest and find another wedding to attend.
>
> Thoughts?
>  Dave at wn4afp.com
>
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Mark <markzl3ab at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The CQ WW Committee blog post about audio recording is a bit of surprise
> to
> > me.  Up until now I had figured audio recording would only be an issue in
> > Oceania for the serious entrants (i.e. entries with lots of QSOs and/or
> > hours on the air).  In Oceania a casual entry of 1-200 Qs could easily
> put
> > you in the top three of just about any single op single band category,
> > assuming the category even had three entrants (I won the Oceania CW 40m
> QRP
> > assisted category and set a new record with one QSO and two points a few
> > years back).  In its post the committee quotes the Asian 160m low power
> > category.  Looking at the 2016 SSB results there were no entrants in that
> > category (assuming there wasn't an entrant(s) who was moved to a checklog
> > for not audio recording) so any entry at all would have won it.  In
> Oceania
> > there was one entrant who made four QSOs.
> >
> > I would pick most if not all ops who perceive themselves as casual would
> > not audio record their entry (or even know they had to).  Is it really
> the
> > Committee's intention to DQ casual entrants who end up in the top three
> due
> > to a lack of other entrants, if they do not provide an audio record?  If
> so
> > then I'd suggest the rules should be amended to make it clear that any
> > entry competitive or not which ends up in the top three is subject to the
> > audio recording requirement because casual ops will not consider
> themselves
> > competitive.  It will of course have the effect of decimating casual
> single
> > category entries in this part of world (such as it is) by ops who just
> > enter for fun but who do not want to run the risk of being besmirched by
> a
> > DQ.
> > A better way (and it seems to me contesting is heading this way in
> general)
> > would be for entrants to be able to enter any category they like but
> > designate themselves as casual or competitive.  If casual then they would
> > not need to provide an audio record but could still be listed in the
> > results database for their category (assuming they comply with the other
> > rules).  However they would not eligible for a certificate which would go
> > to the highest competitive entries and who of course would need to
> provide
> > an audio record on request.  Also only competitive entries would be
> > eligible to set records and to be listed in the top entrant lists in the
> > results write up.  At least this way an entrant can make a conscious
> > decision as to how they want their entry to be treated rather than run
> the
> > risk of a DQ if they are unlucky enough to enter a category with less
> than
> > three other entrants.
> >
> > 73
> > Mark ZL3AB
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