On 17/03/2013 15:22, Bob Naumann wrote:
The survey is OPEN to all.
It's not a survey! Yes, it looks like a survey, and
I've responded to it myself but, in reality, it's not
a survey.
Rather, it appears to be, in part, a tool or a pretext
for the purpose of giving the CQWW committee an option
to abolish the SO category and wash its hands of the
(admittedly) thankless task of determining which SO
entries should be reclassified.
Why else would the committee "survey" contesters in
general about an issue that has no relevance to anyone
but single-ops? After all, by definition, single-ops
all want to stay SO, and the others couldn't care less
- because it doesn't concern them.
A "survey" to combine QRP, LP and HP, or another
to combine SO and MO would make just as much, or
as little, sense.
The "survey" does offer the possibility, if SO and
SOA categories (and results) were to be combined,
of identifying those that claimed not to have used
assistance. That is no solution or, rather, it's
a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. SO
entrants want to stay SO, quite apart from seeing
a meaningless comparison of their scores with those
from other entry categories.
Anyone who has an interest in the CQ WW DX Contest may take the survey.
This statement raises two issues. What applies
to CQWW DX applies equally to the remaining major
contests that continue to distinguish between SO
and SOA. Should a precedent be set by CQWW, it's
a fair assumption it would soon apply to all the
others.
Secondly, it seems to me that anyone who does not
already enter as SO in the major contests has no
business responding to survey questions that do not
concern them, or that will have no effect on their
chosen way of operating.
73,
Paul EI5DI
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