Topband: Well, Duh... (Apology re: ARRL160)

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

I suspect "no DX window" is a fairly common perception.

If you search the 160 rules on the string "dx window", you don't get a hit.
Searching on "1.830" finds the text. It's listed under "Miscellaneous".
 You have to read it end-to-end to run into it.

I also wonder what happened to the CAC's recommendation. I can't find any
followup searching the ARRL site.

73, Guy.


On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 8:03 PM, chetmoore <chetmoore at cox.net> wrote:

> Hi Guy,
>
> I do not know if I was in the window.  I was not looking as I too thought
> there was no
> Longer a DX window any more.
>
> 73
>
> Chet moore  N4FX
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Guy
> Olinger K2AV
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 7:53 PM
> To: TopBand List
> Subject: Topband: Well, Duh... (Apology re: ARRL160)
>
> I screwed up and spent a couple of one hour stretches Saturday night CQing
> in the DX window until someone got my attention and convinced me that ARRL
> still had a DX window in their 160 contest, even though the CQ 160 and both
> all-band DX tests had dumped theirs years ago, and I thought I remembered
> ARRL HQ group voted to drop it from their 160 as well. [1]
>
> ** But no excuses for not knowing the rules.** So that makes my entry
> invalid, and will be submitted this year only as a check log. My entry will
> not have an invalid advantage over anyone else's. Apologies to anyone I may
> have inconvenienced.
>
> 73, Guy K2AV
>
> [1] Actually June, 2009, yes they did vote to drop it, and it was the ARRL
> Contest Advisory Committee. See:
>
>
>
> http://www.arrl.org/files/file/About%20ARRL/Committee%20Reports/July/29_Cont
> est_Advisory_Committee.pdf
>
> An interesting read.
>
> Should note that the report phrases the current rule as a "recommendation",
> as if to indicate they don't consider it a hard rule, and *nobody* voted to
> make it a "requirement". They consider the rule unenforceable. From the
> report:
>
> "4. Vote: Rule 6.1
>  A. Delete (9)
>  B. Make it a requirement (0)
>  C. Leave it as a recommendation (7)"
>
> The report lists in their committee discussion many of the issues brought
> up
> in a thread on the DX window on TopBand a week or so ago.
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