I feel bad for the guys at PJ2T because this has happened to them before. I was
happy for them because I thought they pulled out a victory in MM after trying
for years. Plus they are my friends.
It's interesting to me that the guys in question who switched categories from
Multi-2 has won that category for the last 8 years. Their streak was going to
be broken by D4C this year.
I have to tell you I have a bad taste in my mouth about what the Mult-Single
and Multi-2 categories have become. The winners are really setup as a
Mult-Multi's with lockout's that prevent them from transmitting more than one
signal on a band at the same time. Most of them have at least 8-10 operators
or more. I don't think this is what CQ envisioned these categories to be when
they were first created.
I also don't see how the CQ log checkers could even tell if these entries some
how slipped up with their lockout's and transmitted more than one signal on a
band unless they listened to a SDR recording of every contact they made. I
pretty sure they don't have the resources to do this because it's a volunteer
organization.
It's also noteworthy that there were several M2X entries who didn't submit
their scores to 3830 until Friday, when the logs were due. Were they just
sitting back and waiting to see what their competition had done and massaged
their logs?
I mean come on... If you are so technical to build complex lockout's and narrow
bandpass filters you can't submit your score to 3830 immediately after the
contest like everyone else does? Sorry but that sounds sneaky to me.
Jeff KU8E / PJ4A team
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