Tim reminds us:
>7.5. Participants that are disqualified will be barred from submitting an
>entry in the next annual
> running of that specific contest
Also, such determinations of disqualification are to be made by the ARRL
Awards committee, not by anyone involved in log checking or whoever is
directly responsible for the contest.
So it appears there are two possibilities:
The wrong word was used to describe these entries: "disallowed", "not
accepted", or similar language which does not make use of the more serious,
and possibly stigmatized word "disqualified".
The other possibility was that these individuals were actually disqualified
without the direct interaction of the ARRL Awards Committe. For if they
were, they would have received a registered letter directly from ARRL HQ
attesting to this fact.
The word "Disqualification" should be reserved for the purposes which it was
intended: for those who cheat, and those who apparently are so grossly
incompetent in their operating ability that they need to start over and try
again.
Warren, NF1J
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