[CQ-Contest] TWO entries in ONE Contest
Vladimir A. Gordienko
gord at kron.donetsk.ua
Wed Feb 11 10:22:13 EST 1998
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Ham radio is a hobby, but a lot of people dedicates a lot of time
and money to it, taking it seriously.
To "take it seriously" it's not a sign to be abnormal, but a sort of
respect for the hobby and the people dealing with.
Concerning IARU results, it's evident to the stones that something
is wrong in the results of the last 5 years, at least in the mixed
modes categories, but I can't believe that one of the major amateur
association could have or support a contest committe deliberately
behaving like someone (see above) told becuse upset.
I can't believe the IARU organization itself could accept a shameful
managing of it's main HF contest, expecially if it is true what it was
told to me, that IARU is the only contest where checkers are payed.
In the IARU, a committee who's not doing at all it's job would really
make fun of the amateur community, not only of contesters, and this
couldn't be acceptable by anyone.
This is my opinion, and because of it I think what was noticed is
due to the rules aging and to a weak checking method, may be both in
junction with a lack in the attention and some mistake, no one is
perfect.
A thief robbed ? Well, he only is the bad one to punish but it is not
correct to accuse who represent the law as the reason of stolen gear.
On the other hand, if a "law" is evidently proved to be not actual,
beeing easily cheatable (ie. the guilty can't be found or proven),
there is a very urgent need to act for changing things in the best
possible way.
If later, in front of the evidence, nothing changes, the "law men",
those who should act in updating the rules in our case, also become
responsible of the sin, and should be replaced before the damages
becomes unrepairable, by more qualified ones.
It's a pity if a great contest like the IARU will drop in interest,
but if nothing changes about rules or checking, I'll evaluate the
opportunity to use that July week-end for typical summer purposes,
weather is pretty nice in that period.
I feel I'm not alone in this thought.
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TWO ENTRIES IN ONE CONTEST ?
Hello Contesters!
Could you imagine: somebody seriously works as a single operator on 40m
and 80m, or on 20m and 40m, or on 80m and 160m bands during one Contest?
I think that is impossible. Could you imagine: somebody seriously works
as a single operator on 10m and 160m, or on 10m and all bands during
one Contest? I guess that might be.
The story. It was in 1996. I was going to take part in the Ukrainian DX
Contest in SO 15m MIX category. The contest begins at 12:00 UTC.I started
to work on 21MHz, but because of bad conditions and low contest activity
my contest was finished in a couple of hours.I thought: what I have to do?
I decided to continue my job on the other bands,first of all to support the
contest activity getting fun and I came back to 15m next morning. Finally
I sent two logs to the contest committÅe, one for 15m entry and another
for all bands entry. What did happen later? Then I got the Results,I was
surprised:I was placed first in SO 15m MIX category and 3rd in SO MB MIX
category! My friends contesters noticed me something like these: " You
should not send two entries in one contest", "You must send one log for
your entry and another one as a check-log". Mmm...I guess they are right.
But,if me or someone else have any real ability to make two entries in
one contest, so what is actually wrong ?
73! Vlad UT1IA
(RB5IM formerly)
e-mail: gord at kron.donetsk.ua
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Ham radio is a hobby, but a lot of people dedicates a lot of time
and money to it, taking it seriously.
To "take it seriously" it's not a sign to be abnormal, but a sort of
respect for the hobby and the people dealing with.
Concerning IARU results, it's evident to the stones that something
is wrong in the results of the last 5 years, at least in the mixed
modes categories, but I can't believe that one of the major amateur
association could have or support a contest committe deliberately
behaving like someone (see above) told becuse upset.
I can't believe the IARU organization itself could accept a shameful
managing of it's main HF contest, expecially if it is true what it was
told to me, that IARU is the only contest where checkers are payed.
In the IARU, a committee who's not doing at all it's job would really
make fun of the amateur community, not only of contesters, and this
couldn't be acceptable by anyone.
This is my opinion, and because of it I think what was noticed is
due to the rules aging and to a weak checking method, may be both in
junction with a lack in the attention and some mistake, no one is
perfect.
A thief robbed ? Well, he only is the bad one to punish but it is not
correct to accuse who represent the law as the reason of stolen gear.
On the other hand, if a "law" is evidently proved to be not actual,
beeing easily cheatable (ie. the guilty can't be found or proven),
there is a very urgent need to act for changing things in the best
possible way.
If later, in front of the evidence, nothing changes, the "law men",
those who should act in updating the rules in our case, also become
responsible of the sin, and should be replaced before the damages
becomes unrepairable, by more qualified ones.
It's a pity if a great contest like the IARU will drop in interest,
but if nothing changes about rules or checking, I'll evaluate the
opportunity to use that July week-end for typical summer purposes,
weather is pretty nice in that period.
I feel I'm not alone in this thought.
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