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Re: [CQ-Contest] radio-sport.net web site or copy and paste journalism

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] radio-sport.net web site or copy and paste journalism
From: David Gilbert <xdavid@cis-broadband.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:40:56 -0700
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Let me see if I understand this correctly.

You spend a few hours per year operating a contest and submitting your 
results, some of which undoubtedly has errors despite your best personal 
efforts.  However, you expect flawless performance from mostly 
volunteers who spend countless hundreds of hours cross checking 
thousands of logs and compiling results for dozens of operating 
categories ... all while trying to weed out cheaters who go to great 
lengths to hijack the system.  You pay squat for all that effort (other 
than your subscription to CQ Magazine), but yet it is supposed to have 
zero errors because you "deserve it"?

What planet do you live on?

Dave   AB7E



On 9/22/2011 5:37 AM, Yuri wrote:
> Dear Bob,
> many of us don't care about CAC and how they communicate with each other.
> However, a lot of us are waiting for the CQ Magazine with the final results
> in there.
> Me personally, I only subscribe to CQ Mag because of the results.
> And what we see??? Typos, mistakes, etc...
> Is it really that difficult to check the printing material before
> publishing???
> Many of us travel around the World or just devote few days of our lives to
> this Contest despite family, financial, work and even health problems...
> Do we deserve to see at least mistake free results???
> I am pretty sure, the case with LZ9W is not a stand-alone mistake (typo?)
> For instance, CQ WW World CW/SSB Combined plaque was mistakenly awarded to
> OH2UA.
>
> Regards,
> Yuri  VE3DZ
>
>
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