I've made lots of mistakes in the heat of the moment. Thanks to the DX police (up, up, up!) and sometimes transmitting out of an allocation. Easy to do!
I am still seeing *REALLY BROAD* signals in SSB contests, even from one of the big multi-multi stations today. With modern equipment it isn't easy to create this sort of crappy signal. While I'm not going to name names or calls but I think it is time to start DQ-ing this sort of on-air behavior. Last contest season I called a station that was testing just prior to the contest start. I told him he was really wide (almost 10 kHZ!) and his response was, "How much wider do you want it?". GAKK. Blatant crap like that will cause me to record the evidence and turn it into the ARRL monitoring group AND the contest committee. YMMV 73 -de "Curly" John NI0K QRZ.com<https://www.qrz.com/db/ni0k> Hamshack Hotline<https://hamshackhotline.com/> call me: 6100271 On 10/26/2025 3:09 PM, Curt Nixon via Elecraft wrote: AT least the CQ WW log checkers disallow those. And if they deem it more than accidental, they can dsq the station. Technically, that example is not OOB but out of allocation for mode. Even 7.126 would be out due to bandwidth. KU8L On Sun, Oct 26, 2025, 3:24 PM David Gilbert via Elecraft < [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Yes, that's annoying, but you're assuming that the FCC has both the inclination and the resources to pursue violations like that. I think they have shown for a long time now that they have neither. Dave AB7E On 10/26/2025 12:12 PM, Al Lorona via Elecraft wrote: If I were the FCC, I would camp out on or near 7.125 MHz on Saturday during the CQ WW Phone contest and start logging the calls of all the US operators calling DX stations there. (If you call on that frequency on LSB, you're illegally transmitting out-of-band.) Just between the 1st and 7th innings of the baseball game yesterday, I logged 30 stations who did exactly that: they all called IP9C on 7,125.5. I'm sure there were many more. I have no idea whether the scoring committee disallows contacts made this way, or whether that's even checked. Certainly, those stations should not get credit for the illegal contacts. W6LX said that. Al W6LX ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
