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

[Frank Norton]

As a long time ham and participant in CQWW SSB and CW contests, it is most 
distressing to read your post to cq-contest.  You are supposed to be 
representative of the hams, the people who step forward in an 
emergency---not those who cringe and run for cover when the going gets rough.

You are dramatically overemphasizing the danger to the staff that would be 
opening logs submitted by mail.  There are simple means available to secure 
your mail system.  Why not invest in something that will allow you to 
proceed with the contest?  You are going to have to deal with this issue 
for the long term...not just this contest or even this year.

I support Judge Laney completely.  Unless CQ reconsiders this position, I 
will not participate in the contest, and further, I will discontinue my 
subscription to CQ.

Americans from the USA don't run when faced with a challenge.  I fought for 
our freedoms, and refuse to allow them to be ripped away by paranoia.  If 
you allow the acts of a group of terrorists to change the way the entire 
ham radio community of the world must function in your contest....they have 
won.

The community of radio amateurs is not a group of cowards.  We volunteer to 
serve our communities in time of need.  When has there been a greater need 
for us to set an example of fearless, forthright activity on the ham bands?

Do not give in!  Spend the money necessary to secure your mail service and 
do business as usual.

Sincerely,

Frank Norton II


>Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 17:24:02 -0400
>To: Richard Moseson <w2vu at cq-amateur-radio.com>, cq-contest at contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ Asks Contesters to E-mail All Logs
>
>It's a bit late for those already en route to DX locations for NEXT
>weekend's contest.
>
>I have been e-mailing logs for contests for several years now, but last
>year when I went to Barbados and made about 6500 QSOs (after dupes), I
>couldn't get my e-mail log to go through, so I had to send in a disk
>with the log file on it.  I am planning to go back to Barbados again
>this year for CQ WW CW, but I don't see any point in spending $3,000.00
>or so to give out a lot of QSOs and probably the only Barbados mults in
>the contest and not to be able to send in the log.
>
>Not everyone in the world or even the US has access to an e-mail system
>at all, much less one that will handle a large log file.  As your
>magazine and its committees have repeatedly said, it takes years for
>changes in rules to be disseminated to all the participants in the far
>corners of the world.
>
>I doubt these contests will be very popular once this rule is known.
>
>This is in no way to make light of your security problems.  I, myself,
>am a Federal Judge, so I know something of your concerns.  Nevertheless,
>there must be some other solution.  It is unfair to sponsor a contest
>and to refuse to accept logs according to the rules that have been
>published.
>
>I understand a portion of your message to suggest that you will seek
>another solution and I hope that will be successful.
>
>If there are to be no exceptions and no other solutions, I would
>appreciate your letting me know so I can cancel my plans and get some
>type of a refund.
>
>73,
>
>John Laney, K4BAI/8P9HT.


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