[CQ-Contest] IARU 2009 and 2010 and ????

[Rytis LY4U]

Uh, almost offtopic, but I feel this is connected.

"everybody should equalize friend-spotting to self-spotting (and cease doing 
that)"

I should have elaborated on this, whom do we spot in contests?

A DX that could be of interest to others
A station that hears good
A station that runs good/in style/ethically/etc
An unusual/early/late/weird band opening or signal
Fresh meat on sunday

And that's probably it?

To my understanding, the roots of uneasiness with the "HQ" category in IARU 
HF Competition comes exactly for those 2 reasons: "friend-spotting" and 
campagns to fool the patriotic local contesters and even worse still not 
contesting hams into working the big boss your country's  "xxxxHQ".

73 Rytis LY4U


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "LY4U" <ly4u at printqsl.com>
To: <ly8o at ot.lt>; <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 22:41
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] IARU 2009 and 2010 and ????


> Remi, it's no big deal, just everybody should equalize friend-spotting to 
> self-spotting (and cease doing that), and stop advertising camapaingns 
> "help your country HQ by giving points" - which is non-sportmanship by any 
> means, IMHO. The more categories in Contest, the better ;)
>
> 73 Rytis LY4U
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "LY8O" <ly8o at ot.lt>
> To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 16:17
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] IARU 2009 and 2010 and ????
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> After all circus with few HQ station results in the last IARU contest the 
>> last information about HQ category in 2010 sounds destructive and have no 
>> future. For me, as a LY0HQ team member, and for many other amateurs who 
>> preparing to participate in the HQ teams around the World I believe the 
>> words below sounds like a monkey business or like a simple disabling from 
>> CC side:
>> "Effective with the 2010 IARU HF World Championship, no adjudication
>> of HQ station logs will be conducted by the ARRL," wrote Patton. (NN1N)
>> I can't believe this is all the CC could do... In this case I see a 
>> reason to exclude HQ category at all because I thing number or 
>> participators will decrease very noticeably - many will decide to 
>> participate in SO or M/S categories.
>> On the other hand there is a possibility to reduce own country supporters 
>> weight in the final results - just to change points per QSO weigth. If we 
>> lets say will go to the scoring 1 point for own country, 2 points for a 
>> different zone in the own country, 3 points for different country in the 
>> same zone, 5 points for a different zone in the same continent and 10 
>> points for a different continent (or something else) - the final picture 
>> will be different. Perhaps there could be and other solutions as well.
>> So I think CC must to decide very clear - to exclude HQ category at all 
>> or let to compete HQ stations with each other because this i a contest 
>> but with rules changes.
>> Thanks for reading.
>>
>> 73, Remi LY8O
>> member of LY0HQ team
>> The only real QSL manager of LY0HQ since 1996.
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