TopBand: CQ 160 Committee Contest Announcement

[Bill Tippett]

>From Dave K4JRB (thompson@mindspring.com):

ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING YU, YT, YZ, 4N4 STATIONS.     This announcement may
be posted to other bulletin boards, web pages , and contest journals so long
as the entire text is used WITHOUT change!

September 23, 1998 from the CQ 160 Contest Committee to all radio amateurs:

After careful consideration the committee has decided to disallow stations
operating with a Yugoslav call inside Bosnia.  Calls with the Yugoslav
prefix and the number 4 such as YU4, YT4, YZ4, 4N4 must be located within
the current  boundaries of Yugoslavia to be accepted.  The two logs received
for the 1998 CQ WW 160 CW are clearly identified as within Bosnia which is
assigned the T9 block by the ITU.  The logs of YT4I and YZ4IZ will be
classified as check logs.

Contacts with such stations will still have the appropriate points ( 5 or
10) and no contacts were removed from any logs.   This will be true for 1999
CQ 160 Contests and beyond.  There will be NO multiplier credit for these
contacts!  This rule applies to other activities such as 1X (UA4) and 1B
(5B4).

This decision came after consulting a number of contest groups, the CQ WW
committee, CQ Communications management, the ARRL, and the ITU.

David L. Thompson  K4JRB  (For the Cq 160 Committee)
CQ 160 Contests Director




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