[CQ-Contest] Is it a time to change rules for HQ stns in IARUcontest ? - correction

[igor sokolov]

Wally and all,
This is not a coincidence but rather or... :)
The web site that you refer to has a policy to keep news on the front page
for 48 hours. Then news that are no longer news go to archive where you can
still see them but the link is different. This message  was actually posted
by me. The message is still there. Just go to archives.
Anyway the subject you have raised deserves discussion.  Here are my 2
cents...
I think that was 5B4AGN who said here that we need to know the objectives
that contest sponsors had in mind when designing rules for the contest.
IARU is pretty unique just because there is HQ competition. HQ station
represents national amateur radio organization and therefore has access to
its organizational resources. IARU in Europe  recently turned into
competition of national  ham radio organizations That has first been seen as
such by DA0HQ team but quickly followed by others. IMHO that has made the
contest different from others and therefore very interesting.
Different countries use different advantages to win. That includes things
like greater ham radio population, better organization, geographical
advantages or sometimes smaller ham radio population and low level of
everyday activity. For instance if 4L0HQ will set up 12 well equipped
stations with good ops they would have very good chance of winning HQ
competition despite of pretty small ham population.
There can not be level field in HF contesting unless it is something like
WRTC (and even WRTC is not that level field that we dream about). Just use
the resources available to you and do your best. On the positive side IARU
involves many non contesters who see it as 5B4AGN said  "flag waiving
party". Some of these one contest participants may get interested and we may
see some of them later in other contests. May be that was the idea behind
the IARU rules regarding HQ operation. Then it seems to have worked.

73, Igor UA9CDC

> I must admitt my Russian is not as good as my English :-( .
> I appologize for mistake - 1200 SP stations were NOT calling
> from a single station, but this does not underscores the fact that
> out of  17 600 QSOs - 8000 QSOs were made with SP stations
> by  SN0HQ team in 2005.
>
> By the way the link I've just given in my previous message
> have just dissapeared from the server www.qrz.ru
> Coincidence or ... ?
>
> Wally LZ2CJ
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Valeri Stefanov" <wally at el-soft.com>
> To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 8:28 PM
> Subject: Is it a time to change rules for HQ stns in IARU contest ?
>
>
> > Dear Fellow Contesters,
> >
> > I would say the time to change rules for HQ stations in IARU contest has
> > come.
> > It is crystal clear ,if one reads the link below( of course, if he can
> > understand
> > Russian :-) )
> >
> > www.qrz.ru/webnews/3441.htm
> >
> > In IARU 2005 -
> > It is NOT normal DA0HQ to have over 9000 DL QSOs out of total of 19 000.
> > It is NOT normal to have SN0HQ been called by 1200 different SP
callsigns
> > who used JUST ONE STATION to make these QSOs. 528 of these 1200
> > SP operators worked SN0HQ on all 6 bands form JUST ONE STATION.
> > SN0HQ had 8 000 QSO's with SP stations ,too !
> > (info is translated from the link in Russain given above )
> >
> > As a normal person I would  NOT call this a fair competition although
> > accroding to currently printed rules of IARU contest this is NOT a
formal
> > rules violation.
> >
> > If we have the same approach in LZ we would ask 1/3 of all 3000 LZ
> > hams to go to our central radio club station and to stand on a queue
> > to work LZ7HQ station on 6 bands  :-))).
> >
> > I would kindly suggest to organizing committee of IARU contest
> > to take action and stop this nonsense.
> > At this time I can not suggest myself a solution of this problem,but
such
> > actions by some HQ stations definetly makes efforts of other HQ stations
> > useless.
> >
> > 73,  Wally LZ2CJ
> > one of LZ7HQ operators in IARU 2006
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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