[CQ-Contest] Why was 4U1WB Disqualified in the CQ WPX Contest?

[John Geiger]

The TO and TX prefixes immediately came to mind for me also when I saw his
post.

73 John AF5CC

On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Fred Kleber <kleberf at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> OK, so if I follow Terry's logic correctly for rule V.C.1 (see below),
> what about the TO#* calls which are issued by France, but the DXCC entity
> can not be determined?  Let's take TO1A for example.  Does this mean if
> someone signed TO1A in a CQ contest from outside of France, they run the
> risk of being DQ'd?  For example:
>
> TO1A versus:
> FG/TO1AFH/TO1AFJ/TO1A
> FK/TO1AFM/TO1AFO/TO1AFP/TO1A
> FR/TO1AFW/TO1A
>
> FY/TO1A
> ...or how about VK9AA?  Can't tell what entity that's from.  ...or how
> about VK0 (Heard, Macquarie, or Antarctica?)...or how about 3Y (Bouvet or
> Peter 1st?
> 73,Fred, K9VV, um wait, I mean K9VV/KP2
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 3:02 PM, Terry Zivney <n4tz at arrl.net> wrote:
>
> >? Why was 4U1WB Disqualified in the CQ WPX Contest?
> >
> > As Masa, AJ3M, noted in his posting about the
> > disqualification of 4U1WB in the 2017 CQ WPX SSB
> > contest, I informed him that:
>
> <snip> ...> Since 4U1 prefixes can be in multiple countries, rule V.C.1
> would also
> > apply.
> > The DXCC list includes 4U1UN and 4U1ITU as separate entities. So, the 4U1
> > prefix does not denote the country of operation. This rule states:
> >
> > "A station operating from a DXCC entity different from that indicated
> > by its call sign is required to sign portable." Because the 4U1WB
> callsign
> > does not reflect the DXCC entity of USA, it is required to sign portable.
>
> <snip>
>
> > 73
> >
> > Terry N4TZ, CQ WPX Contest Director
> >
> > This message was posted at 1701 UTC, October 27, 2017
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