[CQ-Contest] Attention CQWW SO2R Competitors

Barry w2up at comcast.net
Thu Jun 29 08:57:08 EDT 2017


If your sidetone is turned off, as was the case when I operated SO2R, 
there's nothing heard by the operator during transmit.


Barry, OK1/W2UP


On 6/28/2017 9:04 PM, John W wrote:
> Hopefully the sponsor will chime in and clarify this, but when I read the following:
>
> "must record the transmitted and received audio as heard by the operator"
>
> I understood that to mean that I must record the transmitted and received audio as heard by the operator .
>
>
> In other words, I did not interpret that as saying:
>
> "must record the transmitted signal as transmitted as well as the received audio as heard by the operator".
>
>
> Jorge (and some others), what makes you  want to use the second interpretation?
>
> You are adding your own extra words that are not actually there in the rule.
>
>
> What the rule is saying is that whatever I am hearing in my headphones must be recorded, and it's as simple as that.
>
> There is no need to make it more complicated than it is.
>
>
> 73,
>
>
> John
>
> W2ID
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: CQ-Contest <cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of Jorge Diez - CX6VM <cx6vm.jorge at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2017 1:17 PM
> To: n2ic at arrl.net
> Cc: kr2q at optimum.net; Bob Naumann; cq Contest; w4pa >> Scott Robbins
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Attention CQWW SO2R Competitors
>
> 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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