I suspect "no DX window" is a fairly common perception. If you search the 160 rules on the string "dx window", you don't get a hit. Searching on "1.830" finds the text. It's listed under "Miscellaneous". You have to read it end-to-end to run into it.
I also wonder what happened to the CAC's recommendation. I can't find any followup searching the ARRL site. 73, Guy. On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 8:03 PM, chetmoore <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guy, > > I do not know if I was in the window. I was not looking as I too thought > there was no > Longer a DX window any more. > > 73 > > Chet moore N4FX > > -----Original Message----- > From: Topband [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Guy > Olinger K2AV > Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 7:53 PM > To: TopBand List > Subject: Topband: Well, Duh... (Apology re: ARRL160) > > 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_Cont > est_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 > > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
