[Elecraft] [OT] Illegal contacts during the CQ WW Phone

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

Actually, ARRL's Amateur Auxiliary (Official Observer corps as
reconstituted a few years ago) *should* be doing that kind of
thing.  Unfortunately, the ARRL CEO is so incompetent that he
provides little effective leadership so what ARRL does is done
poorly and without concern for the membership.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV

On 2025-10-26 3:23 PM, David Gilbert via Elecraft 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