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- QST, Jan 1991
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- CLUB COMPETITION RULES & CONTEST DISQUALIFICATION CRITERIA
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- CLUB COMPETITION:
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- Only ARRL-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.
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- 1. At least three different entries from members of the club must be
- submitted.
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- 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 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:
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- 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 clubs center. All members must attend at least two club
- meetings per year to be eligible to submit an entry. If, however, they have
- not been a member for a years 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-affiliated.
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- 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-affiliated.
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- 3. LOCAL: Any club submitting 10 or fewer entries. All members must reside
- within 20 miles of the club's center. There is no attendance requirement.
- Again, the club must be ARRL-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% of the operators must be
- members of the same club for the score to count for that club. A
- multioperator entry may (optional) utilize nonmember operators licensed one
- year or less without including such operators in the above 66% calculation.
- The interest 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.)
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- It is not 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.
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- The highest scoring affiliated-club entry will be awarded a gavel in each
- category (unlimited, medium, local).
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- The highest single-operator CW score and the highest single-operator phone
- score (ARRL International DX Contest and ARRL November Sweepstakes) in any
- club entry will be awarded with a club certificate when at least three
- single-operator CW and/or three single-operator phone score are submitted.
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- DISQUALIFICATION:
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- If the claimed score of a participant is reduced by 2% or more, the entry
- may be disqualified. Score reduction does not include correction of
- arithmetic errors.
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- Score reduction may be made for taking credit for unconfirmed QSOs and/or
- multipliers, duplicate contacts and/or other scoring discrepancies.
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- An entry with more than 2% duplicate contacts left in the log or an entry in
- which more than 2% "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.
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- 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 1991 phone SS prohibits submission of an entry for
- the 1992 phone SS, but the 1992 CW SS participation is okay.
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- The call signs of all disqualified participants will be listed in the QST
- contest report.
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- Any participant on the borderline of disqualification, but not actually
- disqualified, may receive a warning letter.
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- 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 2% disqualification criteria.
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- In all cases of question the decision of the ARRL Awards Committee are
- final.
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