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

[Jim Brown]

Exactly right!  And thank you for pointing out these obvious 
contradictions, Fred.

AND, more to the point, in WPX, why does the station working 4U1 need to 
know where it is located?   Everyone works everyone, and prefixes are 
multipliers, not countries.  The location of 4U1 or TOnxx affects only 
the value of the contact, and log checking software can certainly figure 
that out.

And for CQWW, the location of these stations allows logging software to 
autofill the zone, so that the operator doesn't even have to copy it!

73, Jim K9YC

On 10/28/2017 10:38 AM, Fred Kleber 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.