Let's leave the KiloCycle Kop duties up to the sponsors, not a lot of
self-appointed vigilantes.
73, de Hans, K0HB
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From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Paul O'Kane
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 3:06 AM
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] CQWW - Excessive Bandwidth
The CQWW sponsors are leading the way in defining and, hopefully, clamping
down on unsportsmanlike conduct.
They say " "Examples of unsportsmanlike conduct include.....
5. Signals with excessive bandwidth (e.g., splatter, clicks)"
Anyone who uses SDR-based panadaptors, including the Elecraft P3, can
recognise and measure wide signals instantly - by just looking at them.
It seems to me that if we had an agreed method of reporting excessive
bandwidth, contest sponsors could confirm it for themselves by checking
their SDR recordings - using times and frequencies from our Cabrillo logs.
The question arises, how would each of us indicate wide signals from other
stations we work - not to mention the ones we might prefer not to work.
The ones we work are easy. My suggestion is to add /Q to the callsign
logged. I'm using Q, because it cannot be confused with another country's
callsign - no calls begin with Q. There may be implications for
dupe-checking with some software, but nothing that can't be supported with a
few extra lines of code.
There are other options, but I would not consider varying the usual 59(9)
reports because it would take longer.
73,
Paul EI5DI
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