[UK-CONTEST] CQWW SSB - Some thoughts

[g3ory at lineone.net]

David,

You might be encouraged to learn that the CQ Committee arranged for 
the whole of the 2009 CQ 160m contest to be recorded (i.e., the whole 
of that portion of the 160m band that was being used, for the whole of 
the duration of the contest) by three stations in North America and two 
in Europe. The hard drives were then sent to the States for whatever 
analysis they cared to perform.

Out of band operation  is one of the easiest things to detect by this 
means.  It also allows them to investigate the UBNs and certain other 
types of complaint.

Now I wonder what they did last weekend.........?  

73 Bob
G3ORY
>----Original Message----
>From: david at honeyfamily.org.uk
>Date: 27/10/2009 19:06 
>To: "UK-Contest"<UK-Contest at contesting.com>
>Subj: Re: [UK-CONTEST] CQWW SSB - Some thoughts
>
>Sadly, this year there were also a number of stations who were 
>calling USB within a 1Khz of the upper band edge on 20m and 15m. For 
>example, VFO set to 14.3497 so that their sidebands would have 
>extended up to 14.3524 at least. Even when several stations tell 
them 
>they are TXing out of band, they just ignore it and continue. To add 
>insult to injury, people were answering their calls, so in breach of 
>their license conditions too. It seems that knowledge of the ITU 
>rules on keeping all your transmissions including sidebands within 
>the band is not well understood among CQ WW contesters, and even 
>those that do understand it, many deliberately choose to ignore 
them. 
>If CQ required that all logs had frequencies and not just bands, 
they 
>could annul all contacts that were out of band in this way. This 
>would reduce the incidence of this. But CQ doesn't seem to care 
about 
>this, despite the contest rules saying otherwise.
>
>BTW, I'm not anti-contest. On the contrary, there are many contests 
>that I enjoy. But it does seem to bring out the worst in some.
>
>vy 73 de David M0DHO
>
>
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