[CQ-Contest] CWT Virus has spread to ARRL 10M - WPX next?

[Frank Maynard NF8M]

In reply to John K3TN's comment

> A few months ago, after remotely opping OZ5W as part of a MM in the
SAC CW and running into cut numbers in variable serial numbers, I
reached out to the ARRL, WPX and CA QP test to recommend prohibiting
cut numbers in non ST exchange fields.
Saw them quite a bit in the 10M ARRL this past weekend. 

Jim K8MR wrote:


>  I don't think cut numbers could be outlawed - can you imagine how
> that would be enforced?

Unless there are contest-committee-appointed monitors listening to each
QSO, it would have to be enforced at the grass-roots level. If we would
all ask for a repeat from any station sending a cut number, and again
until they send the full number, the practice might end rather quickly.
I encountered a few cut number exchanges which threw me for an instant,
and thought about asking for a repeat.

-- 
73,
Frank Maynard, NF8M
nf8m at arrl.net