The first decision was a non decision.> The ARRL opted not to decide in the
claim of AO8HQ against DA0HQ.> ARRL says URE has provided no evidence of their
claim, but at the same time> declared there would be no winner, giving some
merit to AO8HQ claim
Jose, I desagree:
1 - ARRL made a decision. ARRL decided not to DQ a log with too many doubts.
2 - There are mails of owners of DL calls in the DL HQ log that stated they did
not made those Q's claimed by their HQ.Let's say that is not the HQ's fault to
log contacts with one op using multiple calls from others or his own calls, but
there is proof that those were illegal contacts, violating contest rules and I
dont know if goverment rules. Those Q's should not be accounted for the score.
3 - I have EA and HK calls. But I am sending this message from another country:
Contesting land, where many patriots here are worried about unfair play. A
beast that can kill the contests as we know them. In this land, I am sure that
many agree with me, that an example must have been set, and the ARRL missed the
opportunity to do so, big time. You can not hide the sun with your hands. In
some opportunities different contest organizers have made weak and lame
decisions, like just disappearing a log from the final results publication, no
DQ, no sanctions. If rules are not enforced, Contesting land will go down the
drain.
4 - Loosers here are: An institution's credibility and worst: Contesting in
general.
5 - The scoring is as set by the rules. There would be SOME equalization with a
distance-based scoring system, but that has been already discussed here.
6 - Many focus on the category elimination. IMO that's no the point. Something
more grave has happened here, or hasn't happened should I say.
David
HK1A
EC5KXA
ex-HK1KXA
> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:48:31 +0100
> From: ct1boh@gmail.com
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com; k1zz@arrl.net; kx9x@arrl.org
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] AO8HQ vs DA0HQ - ARRL did the worse in two decisions
>
> Many contesters have been following the AO8HQ versus DA0HQ case.
>
> This was documented in the following links below
>
> http://www.radio-sport.net/iaru_scoring09a.htm
>
> http://www.radio-sport.net/iaru_scoring09b.htm
>
> http://www.radio-sport.net/iaru_scoring09c.htm
>
> http://www.radio-sport.net/iaru_scoring09d.htm
>
> http://www.radio-sport.net/iaru_scoring09e.htm
> Without wanted to take part in the discussion of who is right or wrong in
> the case of AO8HQ versus DA0HQ I think the ARRL did the worse in two
> decisions:
>
> The first decision was a non decision.
> The ARRL opted not to decide in the claim of AO8HQ against DA0HQ.
> ARRL says URE has provided no evidence of their claim, but at the same time
> declared there would be no winner, giving some merit to AO8HQ claim
>
> The second decision is the worse it could be for the future of the HQ
> Competition and by consequence the future of the IARU Contest.
> ARRL says effective with the 2010 IARU HF World Championship, no
> adjudication of HQ station logs will be conducted by the ARRL.
> Instead of fixing the problem with HQ competition, ARRL removes HQ
> competition, forgetting that the HQ competition has been one element fueling
> participation from all over world HQ stations.
>
> I'm not a member of the ARRL but I'm the world record holder of he CW SOAB
> category from CT3EN and because of that I think I have a say.
> IARU is my second favorite contest after the CQWW. It is very sad the ARRL
> did not act up to its duty as the administrator of the IARU Contest.
> ARRL should have thought more about the future of the IARU Contest and less
> about the difficulty to taken a decision in the case of AO8HQ versus DA0HQ.
> Were the HQ societies involved in ARRL decision. Were the IARU participants
> involved in the decision?
>
> To end with a famous Winston Churchill quote:
> "It is no use saying we are doing our best. You have got to suceed in doing
> what is necessary."
>
> --
> --
> José Nunes
> CONTEST CT1BOH - http://www.qsl.net/ct1boh
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