[CQ-Contest] Attention CQWW SO2R Competitors

[Stan Stockton]

"as heard by the operator" are the key words.  

If you don't have the sideline on, you don't hear it on CW.  You think they want you to set up a microphone to record everything you say during contest?  

Surely they don't want you to have monitor on while transmitting on SSB!

Stan, K5GO

> On Jun 28, 2017, at 12:17 PM, Jorge Diez - CX6VM <cx6vm.jorge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Steve
> 
> actually the transmitted signal must be present on the recording
> 
> *C. Audio Recordings:* 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.
> 
> So if will be a change would be nice to know about that, many people
> working on this, big companies like Elecfart are working on a firmware to
> improve that and make it easy for the simple operator to do the recording
> that cqww cc ask for
> 
> 73,
> Jorge
> CX6VM/CW5W
> 
> 2017-06-28 11:06 GMT-03:00 Steve London <n2icarrl at gmail.com>:
> 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
> 
> -- 
> 73,
> Jorge
> CX6VM/CW5W
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