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Every year, after any given contest, questions abound about various rules, procedures and terminologies. Do you feel the various contest sponsors need to be more specific in their rules, to reduce the amount of apparent confusion and potential abuse? Or will more rules just create more problems?

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LU1DZ on 2007-04-09
Hello dear friends:

All of you seems to be very interesting in contest rules.

Would you please visit GACW web site and check the WWSA rules.

http://gacw.no-ip.org

I will be very glad to receive your remarks on it.

Muchos saludos
Best regards
Alberto U. Silva LU1DZ
WWSA Contest Manager
http://www.geocities.com/lu1dz
http://gacw.no-ip.org
http://ar.groups.yahoo.com/group/wwsatest/
http://wwsa.cabanova.ro/
http://www.geocities.com/eetecar
http://ar.groups.yahoo.com/group/uranito/

K4WW on 2007-02-23
Keeping the rules, simple and straightforward, is great! By being simple and straightforward, it allows the sponsors to keep their enforcement, of the published rules, simple and stratightforward.

VE6CNU on 2007-01-22
Contest rules need to be updated periodically to keep up with improvements in technology. Typically, some new gadget comes out (hardware or software), some people exploit it, and then the rules or categories are modified to better level the playing field. In most of the mainstream contests, the rules seem pretty clear. Still, the playing field is far from level in most contests, as propagation, arguably the single-most important success factor, varies tremendously around the globe. But coming up with contest rules to help equalize the propagation factor may be more difficult and complex than they're worth. Besides, those "super stations" who have spent the big bucks to locate where they are, and who have great influence over the contest rules, would see little reason to change the status quo. The bottom line is that apart from some minor clarification here and there, things will remain pretty much the same.

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