[CQ-Contest] OOF!

[Julius Fazekas]

(opening a premium can o' worms)

Now if both entities could come together on using LoTW (and eQSL) for both ARRL and CQ awards...

LoTW seems like a better option for those seeking USCA than eQSL.

Just sayin' ;o)

Julius Fazekas
N2WN

Tennessee Contest Group
http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html
http://groups.google.com/group/tcg1?hl=en

Tennessee QSO Party
http://www.tnqp.org/

Elecraft K2/100 #4455
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Elecraft K3/100 #1875


--- On Tue, 1/12/10, James Cain <jamesdavidcain at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: James Cain <jamesdavidcain at gmail.com>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] OOF!
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2010, 5:55 AM
> N5KO wrote: "All parties gave support
> [for Cabrillo] without hesitation
> except for CQ -- the CQ representative said 'CQ will give
> support, but only
> if you remove 'ARRL' from the name.'  Oof!"
> 
> I agree with CQ magazine's position. At that point, it no
> longer was an
> "ARRL format" but rather a generic one. Leaving "ARRL" in
> the name would
> have confused people.
> 
> There was a lot of bad blood between ARRL and CQ magazine
> following the Don
> Miller, W9WNV episode in the mid-1960s. In February, 1968,
> Miller sued the
> ARRL and its General Manager and Secretary, John Huntoon,
> W1RW. ARRL had
> disallowed a number of Miller's claimed DXpeditions to rare
> places (e.g.
> Heard Island, Navassa, others) when he, Miller, could
> produce no proof he'd
> been to them.
> 
> CQ backed Miller during the dispute and published a number
> of quotes from
> him, some of which the ARRL disputed. Miller sought
> $550,000 in damages;
> following depositions, the suit was dropped. No money
> changed hands.
> 
> When I arrived to work in Newington in 1973, John Huntoon
> told me it was OK 
> to
> operate in the CQ contests from W1AW but not to send in a
> log. That would
> have put "W1AW" in the line listings in CQ. I didn't blame
> Mr. Huntoon one
> bit.
> 
> Fortunately, time and mortality seem to have healed those
> wounds between the
> world's two biggest contest and awards sponsors. But I know
> from meeting all
> the principals that the wounds were very deep indeed.
> 
> Three QST articles make fascinating reading:
> 
> May, 1968, p. 81;
> October, 1968, p. 83;
> April, 1969, p. 82.
> 
> I am associated with neither the ARRL nor CQ.
> 
> Jim Cain, K1TN
> Atlantic City
> 
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