In a message dated 3/14/2009 7:43:45 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
dougw9wi@gmail.com writes:
Is there a point at which intentional violation of rules by a
non-entrant is wrong even if it doesn't disrupt the contest?
I can't think of any.
Especially for violating rules that diminish the contest, such, as Doug
mentioned, the ARRL's misguided rule interpretation that prohibits mobile
entries
in HF contests*. Last December I had the occasion to drive from Cleveland to
Arlington, VA, on the Sunday of the ARRL 10 meter contest. To make the drive
more interesting I put the 10 meter HamStick on the car, and to avoid
additional confusion used a different callsign in each state. Nobody seemed to
mind
the extra qsos in their log, and several guys in Florida seemed really happy
to work the District of Columbia on SSB in the last hour of the contest.
No logs were submitted because of the rule, but it was a lot of fun.
73 - Jim K8MR
* The rule against mobiles (the 500 meter rule) was written in the early
1980s to prevent use of remote receivers and multiple site operations (such as
are allowed for IARU HQ stations), which would obviously give fixed stations a
big advantage. It was never intended to protect fixed stations from
competition from some guy driving around with a seven foot whip for an
antenna. It
could be corrected merely interpreting it as requiring everything to fit
inside
a 500 meter circle, but allowing the circle, with all its included
equipment, to move.
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