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                                                               QST, Jan 1991

         CLUB COMPETITION RULES & CONTEST DISQUALIFICATION CRITERIA


CLUB COMPETITION:

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.

1. At least three different entries from members of the club must be
submitted.

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:

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.

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.

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.)

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.

The highest scoring affiliated-club entry will be awarded a gavel in each
category (unlimited, medium, local).

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.


DISQUALIFICATION:

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.

Score reduction may be made for taking credit for unconfirmed QSOs and/or
multipliers, duplicate contacts and/or other scoring discrepancies.

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.

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.

The call signs of all disqualified participants will be listed in the QST
contest report.

Any participant on the borderline of disqualification, but not actually
disqualified, may receive a warning letter.

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.

In all cases of question the decision of the ARRL Awards Committee are
final.

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