Disqualifications and Penalties
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 or multipliers, duplicate contacts or other scoring discrepancies.
An entry with more than two-percent 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.
Participants that are disqualified will be barred from
submitting an entry in the next annual running of that specific contest, for
example, disqualification from the 1998 phone SS prohibits submission of an
entry for the 1999 phone SS, but 1999 CW SS participation is allowable.
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 that is claimed for credit and each
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 decisions of the ARRL Awards
Committee are final.
Page last modified: 02:31 PM, 16 Apr 2001 ET
Page author: contests@arrl.org
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