[CQ-Contest] Fw: [RRDXA] E73M - I have cheated

[David Gilbert]

I'll agree that someone in a foreign country using a contest callsign 
they don't deserve is probably beyond the ARRL's horizon of 
responsibility to monitor, but I don't need to be able to program a 
traffic light to recognize when someone runs a red light.  Besides, the 
ARRL certainly pays extremely close attention to such matters for DXCC 
purposes.

Just to be clear, my impression of the ARRL's handling of contest 
controversy was developed over recent years and has nothing to do with 
CT1EAT's post other than it being a trigger point for my comments.

73,
Dave   AB7E



On 8/22/2011 4:37 AM, Bob Naumann wrote:
> Francisco,
>
> While I am certain that the ARRL told you that the internal CT licensing
> issue you raised was something they could not do anything about, I am even
> more certain that they did not tell you that "they couldn't care less".
>
> I believe the "couldn't care less" is your biased interpretation of the fact
> that the ARRL has no influence over Portuguese licensing issues.
>
> 73,
>
> Bob W5OV
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Francisco Costa,
> CT1EAT
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 4:31 PM
> To: k5zd at charter.net; cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Fw: [RRDXA] E73M - I have cheated
>
> Hi Randy
>
>> The best way to help is to report your suspicions, or
>> better, to provide evidence.  These "suspicions" are
>> very helpful to the sponsor in knowing where to look
>> for more information.
> I respectfull desagree.
> Some years ago I had the hard decision to complain
> about another CT station (due a violation of national
> issuing special calls rules).
> For the fisrt time I made a complain to a contest sponsor.
> I couldn't belive when I read the reply. They simply
> said that was an internal CT issue, and they couldn't
> care less. That was my 1st, only and last complain.
> In case you are wondering, the contest sponsor was ARRL.
>
> 73 F.Costa, CT1EAT
> http://ct1eat.no.sapo.pt
>