[CQ-Contest] My RED CARD - IT9GSF

[Igor Sokolov]

Hi Toivo,
If your suggested approach is adopted (punish only one member of a team), 
then every team will have a "scapegoat" in case they need to avoid RC or YC 
for all the team members. I do not think it will work.

73, Igor UA9CDC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Toivo Hallikivi" <toivo.hallikivi at gmail.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] My RED CARD - IT9GSF


> Hello,
>
> Without referring to any of the particular cases mentioned in this
> discussion I must say I'm a little concerned about the collective 
> punishment
> aspect of the CQWW and CQWPX rules about the Red Card. From rule XIII of
> both CQWW and CQWPX:
> "If the entrant receiving a Red card is in a multi-operator category, all
> listed operators are so affected."
> Is this really fair? If an operator joins a big multi-op team to operate 
> for
> a certain period of time and later the team leader or whoever submitting 
> the
> log decides to alter the log the way that results in a red card then what
> has that particular operator done wrong to deserve the red card?
>
> Or the other way around - in an imaginary situation of  a big multi-op 
> crew
> one operator decides to unplug the PTT inhibit wire to work that rare DX
> that he cannot get because the PTT lock-out system keeps getting in the 
> way
> and as a result there are two signals on the same band. What are his or 
> hers
> 20 team members guilty of for receiving the card?
>
> Have you ever seen the whole soccer team being chased off the field and
> banned from the next 3 games when one player has received a red card for 
> an
> unsportsmanlike tackle?
>
> 73, Toivo, ES2RR
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