Hello,
After all circus with few HQ station results in the last IARU contest the last
information about HQ category in 2010 sounds destructive and have no future.
For me, as a LY0HQ team member, and for many other amateurs who preparing to
participate in the HQ teams around the World I believe the words below sounds
like a monkey business or like a simple disabling from CC side:
"Effective with the 2010 IARU HF World Championship, no adjudication
of HQ station logs will be conducted by the ARRL," wrote Patton. (NN1N)
I can't believe this is all the CC could do... In this case I see a reason to
exclude HQ category at all because I thing number or participators will
decrease very noticeably - many will decide to participate in SO or M/S
categories.
On the other hand there is a possibility to reduce own country supporters
weight in the final results - just to change points per QSO weigth. If we lets
say will go to the scoring 1 point for own country, 2 points for a different
zone in the own country, 3 points for different country in the same zone, 5
points for a different zone in the same continent and 10 points for a different
continent (or something else) - the final picture will be different. Perhaps
there could be and other solutions as well.
So I think CC must to decide very clear - to exclude HQ category at all or let
to compete HQ stations with each other because this i a contest but with rules
changes.
Thanks for reading.
73, Remi LY8O
member of LY0HQ team
The only real QSL manager of LY0HQ since 1996.
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