[CQ-Contest] Attention CQWW SO2R Competitors

[Steve London]

If you are not a single-op, SO2R competitor, you can probably delete 
this message...

The current CQWW rules regarding recording of the contest by top 
competitors states:

"Any single operator entrant (see V.A.1) competing for a top three 
finish at the (a) World, (b) Continent, or (c) USA levels, must record 
the transmitted and received audio as heard by the operator for the 
duration of the contest operation."

Note the phrase "received audio as heard by the operator".

I have always followed this rule, splitting my headphone audio between 
my headphones and my recording device. When doing SO2R, this means that 
my transmitted signal is often not present in the recording - the 
recording contains exactly the audio I am hearing. According to the 
former CQWW director, who wrote the rule, I have been following both the 
wording and intent of the rule. If the CQWW committee needed to hear my 
transmitted signal, they had access to full-band, SDR recordings made by 
independent, third parties.

I have it on good authority that the current CQWW triumvirate may be 
planning a change to this rule to require that the transmitted signal be 
present on the recording, regardless of whether the operator was 
listening to the transmitted signal. If you feel as I do, that the 
current rule should not be changed, I urge you to make your opinions 
known to the current CQWW triumvirate - KR2Q, W4PA, W5OV.

Please feel free to forward this e-mail to others who may be affected.

73,
Steve, N2IC