The responses from those who were DQ'd offer interesting insight into their
attitudes toward cheating. These folks admit intentionally and blatantly
violating an important contest rule, thereby attempting to gain an unfair
advantage over more honest competitors, and yet they feel disqualification was
an "over-reaction". That would be like me robbing a bank and expecting my
penalty if I got caught to be merely having to return the money. And these are
people from the upper echelon of the sport!
For what it may be worth, one of those same stations clearly and explicitly
asked me to spot them on the cluster when I worked them in the 2009 CQ WPX CW
contest (yes, I reported it), so I'm not inclined to put much credence into
sympathetic excuses about isolated errors in judgment.
Dave AB7E
------Original Mail------
From: "Jim Reisert AD1C" <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
To: "cq contest" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:17:18 -0600
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Five DQ's Mark 2008 CQ WW SSB
CQ WW Crackdown: Five DQ's Issued In 2008 CQ WW SSB As Top Teams Tossed Out
By Jamie Dupree NS3T radio-sport.net
Posted July 27, 2009
In one of the most sweeping series of DQ decisions ever issued for a
CQ WW DX contest, four multi-ops and one single op were disqualified
from the 2008 CQ WW DX SSB Contest according to published results sent
to radio-sport.net.
Sources have also indicated to radio-sport.net that other
disqualifications are expected in the CQ WW CW contest results as
well.
"Disqualified: D4C, E7DX, 9A1P, 9A7A, UU7J. Altering of QSL log times
to conform with the 10-minute rule," said the terse note at the end of
the results printed in the September 2009 issue of CQ Radio Amateur,
the Spanish language version of CQ Magazine.
http://www.radio-sport.net/cqwwssb08_dq.htm
--
Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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