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

[LY4U]

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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