[CQ-Contest] CQWW Paper Logs

[Pete Smith]

At 08:49 AM 10/27/01 -0400, Bruce Lallathin wrote:
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>The only thing that makes sense is that CQ Communications
>must have some solid reason to think that they are targeted.

[politics excised]

I doubt it -- panic crops up in funny places and doesn't usually obey logic.

I also suspect the CQ staff aren't alone in making a knee-jerk reaction and
then having trouble admitting they were wrong.  I hope they'll get over it
once the dust settles.

I know a lot of the casual DX ops that we depend on for QSOs in CQWW don't
have home computers, or affordable internet service.  It's crazy to
institute restrictions that will tend to deter activity.

I'll join K3ZO in volunteering to open the mail for CQWW logs.  At my age,
I have a lot of higher-probability threats to my health to be concerned
about, before I start worrying about anthrax.

73, Pete N4ZR


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>From Rich K2WR" <k2wr at njdxa.org  Fri Oct 26 15:15:00 2001
From: Rich K2WR" <k2wr at njdxa.org (Rich K2WR)
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:15:00 -0400
Subject: [CQ-Contest] CQ and mail
Message-ID: <002101c15e28$f5248a80$949c3004 at 5j08601>


Once again, I plead, why isn't it possible for us to disagree without
calling each other names?

W2VU and KR2Q obviously have entirely different perceptions of the
conditions in New York City these days, and my own is probably much closer
to Doug's.  But how can you criticize someone for a perception?  What you
feel is what you feel.

Doug's point about anthrax and ABC is technically correct, but it's a
distinction without much of a difference.  The authorities believe it is
most likely that the child in question came in contact with spores during a
visit to ABC news.  The source has not yet been found.  I happen to work for
ABC and there is no question that people there are extremely concerned about
anthrax.

The bottom line is that Dick Ross feels responsible for the safety of his
employees.  That's not my responsibility, nor Doug's, nor yours.  We may or
may not disagree with the level of his reaction, but some of the of
criticism that has been directed at CQ on this reflector has been
irrational, mean-spirited, and extreme.  Let's keep this stuff in
perspective, please, folks.  We are talking about the mailing of logs in
connection with a specialized hobby-within-a-hobby that at least 98 % of the
people in the world don't even know exists.  Hams are resourceful and
routinely find alternate ways to communicate through equipment failures and
propagation anomalies.  I have every confidence that everyone will find a
way to submit their log.

9.75 hours to go. Enough already.  Where's that spool of solder?

Rich K2WR


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