I screwed up and spent a couple of one hour stretches Saturday night CQing in the DX window until someone got my attention and convinced me that ARRL still had a DX window in their 160 contest, even though the CQ 160 and both all-band DX tests had dumped theirs years ago, and I thought I remembered ARRL HQ group voted to drop it from their 160 as well. [1]
** But no excuses for not knowing the rules.** So that makes my entry invalid, and will be submitted this year only as a check log. My entry will not have an invalid advantage over anyone else's. Apologies to anyone I may have inconvenienced. 73, Guy K2AV [1] Actually June, 2009, yes they did vote to drop it, and it was the ARRL Contest Advisory Committee. See: http://www.arrl.org/files/file/About%20ARRL/Committee%20Reports/July/29_Contest_Advisory_Committee.pdf An interesting read. Should note that the report phrases the current rule as a "recommendation", as if to indicate they don't consider it a hard rule, and *nobody* voted to make it a "requirement". They consider the rule unenforceable. From the report: "4. Vote: Rule 6.1 A. Delete (9) B. Make it a requirement (0) C. Leave it as a recommendation (7)" The report lists in their committee discussion many of the issues brought up in a thread on the DX window on TopBand a week or so ago. _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
