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

[Franki ON5ZO]

> 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

The visionary that I am, I already saw this coming long time ago:
http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2007-06/msg00373.html

Of course the ARRL chose the easy way out by not stepping up with a firm 
statement either way. And at the same time they shut the door for more 
problems in the future by eliminating the HQ business in cold blood. Why 
don't "they" just say out loud what they probably said behind closed doors?
Let's not waste too much time and 'ink' over this. Chances are slim that the 
ARRL will reconsider its position. They're probably glad they got rid of it.

Maybe another IARU society (DARC? URE?) or a contest club should step up and 
manage the HQ part of the IARU contest?
But with new ethics and like NN3W proposed: maybe in a limited way like M/2 
or M/S?

73 de Franki ON5ZO = OQ5M
http://www.on5zo.be/