> To my understanding, the roots of uneasiness with the "HQ" category in
> IARU
> HF Competition comes exactly for those 2 reasons: "friend-spotting" and
> campagns to fool the patriotic local contesters and even worse still not
> contesting hams into working the big boss your country's "xxxxHQ".
> 73 Rytis LY4U
The visionary that I am, I already saw this coming long time ago:
http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-06/msg00373.html
Of course the ARRL chose the easy way out by not stepping up with a firm
statement either way. And at the same time they shut the door for more
problems in the future by eliminating the HQ business in cold blood. Why
don't "they" just say out loud what they probably said behind closed doors?
Let's not waste too much time and 'ink' over this. Chances are slim that the
ARRL will reconsider its position. They're probably glad they got rid of it.
Maybe another IARU society (DARC? URE?) or a contest club should step up and
manage the HQ part of the IARU contest?
But with new ethics and like NN3W proposed: maybe in a limited way like M/2
or M/S?
73 de Franki ON5ZO = OQ5M
http://www.on5zo.be/
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