Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW SSB

["Radio K0HB" <kzerohb@gmail.com>]

For purposes of amateur radio, I don't care who is control over there.

A fellow hobbyist wants to play radio.  That is a fact independent of 
whatever bureaucratic organization currently claims the territory.
73, de Hans, K0HB



-----Original Message----- 
From: ve4xt@mymts.net
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2014 10:36 PM
To: Matt Murphy
Cc: Igor Sokolov ; Publisher K2RED ; Radio K0HB ; Editor W2VU ; 
k5zd@charter.net ; CQ-Contest
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW SSB

Simply accepting Russia's illegal occupation of Crimea would also be a 
political statement.


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> On Oct 18, 2014, at 17:26, "Matt Murphy" <matt@nq6n.com> wrote:
>
> It would seem that if CQ wishes to take a political stance on the Russian
> occupation of Crimea, the appropriate thing to do would be to not accept
> logs from any Russian stations whatsoever.
>
> Penalizing Crimean stations achieves the opposite of the intended effect,
> unless the idea is to punish them for allowing the occupation to happen.
>
> 73,
> Matt NQ6N
>
>
>
>
> > On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Igor Sokolov <ua9cdc@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hans, thank you.
> > You got it absolutely right. Why should a boy who only loves radio and
> > contesting, why should he be penalized for whatever political games 
> > happen
> > around him. Why CQ magazine deprives this boy from from participation in
> > the contest CQ mag sponsors? Is that the purpose of this contest and ham
> > radio in general to divide people into first and second grade based on 
> > the
> > governments these people live under?
> > Why ARRL found may be temporary but wise solution to the problem but CQ
> > magazine decided that they know better and did it in their own way? Do 
> > they
> > understand that they do harm not only to their sponsored contest but to 
> > ham
> > radio in general?
> >
> > 73, Igor UA9CDC
> >
> >
> > (W2VU and K2RED added to the conversation on the advice of K5ZD)
> > > Here's the long and short of it from my viewpoint.
> > >
> > > A certain boy in a certain place has a hobby radio station.  He wishes 
> > > to
> > > participate in radiosport contests run by hobbyist magazines in another
> > > place.
> > >
> > > His license conditions including how he must identify his station are
> > > dictated by whatever government has authority over that place at any 
> > > given
> > > time.
> > >
> > > Other governments, rightly or wrongly, might dispute that authority, but
> > > the boy in that place is not subject to the authority of those other
> > > countries.
> > >
> > > Now those hobby magazines have decided that the politicians (in their
> > > country) shall be the ultimate authority whether the boy and his radio 
> > > (in
> > > another country) are eligible to play in their contest.
> > >
> > > Methinks the hobby magazines are taking themselves far too seriously, 
> > > and
> > > in an international hobby have cloaked themselves in misplaced 
> > > provincial
> > > patriotism.
> > >
> > > dit dit
> > >
> > > 73, de Hans, K0HB
> > > --
> > > "Just a boy and his radio"™
> > > --
> > > Proud Member of:
> > > . A1 Operators - http://www.arrl.org/a-1-op
> > > . Minnesota Wireless contesters - http://www.W0AA.org
> > > . Arizona Outlaws contesters - http://www.arizonaoutlaws.net
> > > . Twin City DX Assn - http://www.tcdxa.org
> > > . Minnesota Amateur Radio Technical Society - http://www.mn-arts.org/
> > > . Lake Vermilion DX Assn - http://www.lvdxa.org
> > > . Royal Naval Amateur Radio Society - http://www.rnars.org.uk/
> > > . SOC - http://www.qsl.net/soc
> > > . CW Operators Club – http://www.cwops.org
> > > . SKCC - http://www.skccgroup.com/
> > > --
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message----- From: Randy Thompson K5ZD
> > > Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2014 1:23 PM
> > > To: 'Andy Kazantsev' ; 'CQ-Contest'
> > > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW SSB
> > >
> > > The CQ WW Contest Committee was very divided on this issue. The Editor 
> > > and
> > > Publisher of CQ Magazine have made this policy decision. Any comments or
> > > appeals should be directed to CQ.
> > >
> > > Randy, K5ZD
> > >
> > >
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