[CQ-Contest] CQMM DX Contest unwritten rule

[Barry W2UP]

When I just make a few QSOs in a contest that I stumble across by tuning
the bands, I always make a minimum of 3, just so I don't appear as a
fabricated QSO.

I've never made any QSOs in CQMM because of their endless spam about the
contest via my qrz.com email address.

Barry W2UP

On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 9:13 AM Art Boyars <artboyars at gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't figure out what they are trying to stop.  Rather, it seems
> backwards if you want to stop falsified QSOs or work-my-buddy QSOs.
>
> I guess I'm not crooked enough.
>
> 73, Art K3KU
>
> On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 10:06 AM Randy Thompson <k5zd at outlook.com> wrote:
>
> > I operated the CQMM DX Contest in 2023 using the callsign ZF2MA.  It was
> a
> > fun experiment and I was not making a serious effort.
> >
> > When the results appeared, I saw that I had a score reduction of more
> than
> > 9%.  This is very high for me and much higher than the other stations
> > around my score.  I wrote to the contest manager and he informed me that,
> > "Only stations that DO NOT SEND LOGS but that appear in 5 or more
> different
> > logs received by the Contest Organizing Committee are validated
> contacts."
> >
> > I do not find this anywhere in the rules.  ZF is not rare DX, but I guess
> > I had enough callers that 107 of my 1517 QSOs were declared "invalid."
> >
> > I just wanted to let everyone know of this hidden rule.
> >
> >
> > Randy K5ZD
> >
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