A few weekends ago, there were 3 different overlapping (time-wise)
contests going on with a World-works-World format, where, for the
stations who weren't in the sponsoring country, the exchanges were
identical. Since you don't *have* to work stations in the sponsoring
country, calling 'CQ TEST' can get potentially confusing. If you're in
a non-sponsoring-country and you respond to a 'CQ TEST' from a station
also in a non-sponsoring-country, which contest are you actually
participating in? It's quite possible that you think the QSO counts for
one of the contests, and the other station thinks it's for a different
contest. I can see this leading to NIL penalties because he has the QSO
logged in one contest, and you have it logged in another.
Perhaps we should be discouraging the use of 'CQ TEST' unless for a
major contest (CQ DX, CQ WPX, IARL, etc) where there's not much doubt
which contest you're participating in, and prefer contest-specific CQs?
Ben
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Ben Coleman nj8j@benshome.net
Radiating from Bedsprings Brigade Manor
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