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Club Competition Rules and Contest Disqualification Criteria
The 1996 contest season is upon us. Five of the ARRL-sponsored
contests during 1996 include an ARRL affiliated club competition: January
VHF Sweepstakes, February/March International DX Contest, November
Sweepstakes, December 160-Meter Contest, and December 10-Meter Contest.
There are a few ground rules to follow to ensure that your club's
scores are properly credited (and to ease the log checker's burden). These
are detailed below.
From time to time it becomes necessary to consider disqualifying an
entry to an ARRL contest. The particulars are listed below. Most of the time
the reason is simply that the person submitting the entry was not accurate in
copying call signs or contest exchanges. As long as you are careful only to
log QSOs when you are sure of the information, you should have nothing to
worry about. [The use of standard ARRL contest forms, computer disk, and
electronic entries will help ensure that your score is figured properly and
speed up the publication of contest results in QST.]
Don't hesitate to call or write if you have a question about the rules
listed here or the rules for any particular contest. The time to ask is before
the contest, not afterward.
Club Competition
Only ARRL active affiliated clubs may participate in the club
competition. A member must be listed in the regular score listings to be
counted for a club.
For a club to be listed, two conditions must be met:
1) At least three different entries from members of the club must be
submitted.
2) All members wishing to be included in the club score must indicate
the club name on their summary sheet and the club secretary must send a
list of all club members eligible to compete for the club and which level
(unlimited, medium, local) they wish to enter for each competition.
Remember to meet the mailing deadline!
There are three levels of club competition:
1) Unlimited: Any club submitting 51 or more entries. (One station
can submit two entries--one on CW and one on phone in the November
Sweepstakes and the DX Contest.) All stations and all operators must reside
within 175 miles of the club's center. All members must attend at least 2
club meetings per year to be eligible to submit an entry. If, however, they
have not been a member for a year's time, they must have attended a
meeting as a member prior to the contest. Those club members who are
disabled in such a way that they are unable to travel are exempt from the
two meetings per year rule but they must be regularly active in club affairs.
To be considered bona fide, a member must be active in club affairs.
Members living outside of 175 miles and/or members operating stations
outside 175 miles may not compete in the club competition. The club must
be ARRL active affiliated.
2) Medium: Any club submitting 50 or fewer entries except as noted
in local club criteria below. The same mileage and attendance requirements
apply as the unlimited class club. The club must be ARRL active affiliated.
3) Local: Any club submitting 10 or fewer entries. All members must
reside and operate within 20 miles of the club's center. There is no
attendance requirement. Again, the club must be ARRL active affiliated.
Single-operator and multioperator station scores may be counted. At a
guest-operated single-operator station, both the guest operator and the
station licensee must be members of the same club in order to count the
score for that club. At multioperator stations, at least 66 percent of the
operators must be members of the same club for the score to count for that
club. A multioperator entry may (optional) utilize non-member operators
licensed one year or less without including such operators in the above 66
percent calculation. The intent here is to encourage clubs to recruit
contesters from newer amateurs without adversely affecting the club
aggregate score.
In conjunction with the two meetings per year rule, the club must hold
at least four in-person meetings per year. A club's entry classification may
be changed if, in the opinion of the ARRL Awards Committee, the club has
manipulated its number of entries to fall into a lower classification (eg, if
a club with 100 members submits only the 10 highest scores, even if more
than 10 of its members wish to compete.)
It is not within the intent of these rules that a club should vote out
a member or that a member resign and then be voted back into the club later
so the member-attendance rule can be met.
The highest scoring active affiliated club entry will be awarded a
gavel in each category (unlimited, medium, local).
The highest single-operator CW score and the highest single-operator
phone score (ARRL International DX Contest, ARRL November
Sweepstakes, and ARRL 10-Meter Contest) in any active affiliated club
entry will be awarded with a club certificate when at least three single-
operator CW and/or three single-operator phone scores are submitted.
Disqualification
If the claimed score of a participant is reduced by two percent or
more, the entry may be disqualified. Score reduction does not include
correction of arithmetic errors.
Score reduction may be made for taking credit for unconfirmed QSOs
and/or multipliers, duplicate contacts and/or other scoring discrepancies.
An entry with more than two-percent duplicate contacts left in the log
or an entry in which more than two-percent "rubber clocking" (altering the
actual time to increase the operating time so that it is greater than the
allowable limit) is detected will be automatically disqualified.
If a participant is disqualified, he or she will be barred from
submitting an entry in the next annual running of that specific contest, eg,
disqualification from the 1996 phone SS prohibits submission of an entry
for the 1997 phone SS, but 1997 CW SS participation is okay.
The calls of all disqualified participants will be listed in the QST
contest report.
Any participant on the borderline of disqualification, but not actually
disqualified, may receive a warning letter.
For each duplicate contact or miscopied call sign that is removed from
the log by HQ, three additional contacts will be deleted as a penalty. The
penalty will not be considered part of the two-percent disqualification
criteria.
In all cases of question, the decisions of the ARRL Awards
Committee are final.
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