[CQ-Contest] CQ Asks Contesters to E-mail All Logs

[Rob Shapiro - ND3A]

Is CQ going to have the same policy with all mail received at your office?
What about all of those magazine renewal checks or advertisers' checks that
come through the door each day?  I bet those pieces of mail will be quickly
opened!

Rob - ND3A

At 02:24 PM 10/17/01 -0400, Richard Moseson wrote:
>
>To all amateurs active in CQ-sponsored contests:
>
>Due to security concerns, CQ Communications Inc. is asking all participants
>in CQ-sponsored amateur radio contests to submit their logs electronically.
>All logs for the CQ World Wide DX Contest, the CQ WPX Contest, the CQ World
>Wide 160-Meter Contest, the CQ World Wide VHF Contest and the CQ/RTTY
>Journal RTTY contests should be submitted via e-mail per instructions in
>the rules for each contest. In light of recent events regarding hazardous
>items sent through the mail, logs received through the mail at the CQ
>offices will be held unopened until all potential health risks have been
>evaluated. CQ says it cannot guarantee that logs submitted by postal mail
>will be opened. Contesters who want to be sure their scores will be
>counted must submit by e-mail.
>
>"We regret the need to inconvenience those contesters who do not have
>access to internet-connected computers, or who choose to log by hand and
>submit those hand-written logs," explained CQ Communications President Dick
>Ross, K2MGA. "But our logs come from all over the world. While the risk
>that amateurs might be involved in any sort of terroristic activity is
>extremely small, mail en route may be subject to tampering. We cannot ask
>our staff members or contest committee volunteers to possibly expose
>themselves to dangerous packages sent through the mail."
>
>"We are not giving in to terrorism," added CQ magazine Editor Rich Moseson,
>W2VU. "We are facing a very real and fast-growing threat and we are taking
>reasonable precautions to protect our staff and volunteers."
>
>CQ requests that this information be disseminated widely so as many
>contesters as possible will be aware of this rules change before the SSB
>weekend of the CQ World Wide DX Contest on October 27-28.
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>Thank you and I hope to see you in the CQWW this weekend.
>
>73,
>Rich W2VU
>Editor, CQ
>
>
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