[CQ-Contest] KILLING THE GOLDEN GOOSE

[Steve London]

Can we please stop with the conspiracy theories ? Can we stop 
attributing motives to the survey author ?

73,
Steve, N2IC

On 03/17/2013 02:38 PM, Paul O'Kane wrote:

>> The survey is OPEN to all.
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> It's not a survey! Yes, it looks like a survey, and
> I've responded to it myself but, in reality, it's not
> a survey.
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> Rather, it appears to be, in part, a tool or a pretext
> for the purpose of giving the CQWW committee an option
> to abolish the SO category and wash its hands of the
> (admittedly) thankless task of determining which SO
> entries should be reclassified.
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> Why else would the committee "survey" contesters in
> general about an issue that has no relevance to anyone
> but single-ops? After all, by definition, single-ops
> all want to stay SO, and the others couldn't care less
> - because it doesn't concern them.
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> A "survey" to combine QRP, LP and HP, or another
> to combine SO and MO would make just as much, or
> as little, sense.
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> The "survey" does offer the possibility, if SO and
> SOA categories (and results) were to be combined,
> of identifying those that claimed not to have used
> assistance. That is no solution or, rather, it's
> a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. SO
> entrants want to stay SO, quite apart from seeing
> a meaningless comparison of their scores with those
> from other entry categories.
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>> Anyone who has an interest in the CQ WW DX Contest may take the survey.
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> This statement raises two issues. What applies
> to CQWW DX applies equally to the remaining major
> contests that continue to distinguish between SO
> and SOA. Should a precedent be set by CQWW, it's
> a fair assumption it would soon apply to all the
> others.
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> Secondly, it seems to me that anyone who does not
> already enter as SO in the major contests has no
> business responding to survey questions that do not
> concern them, or that will have no effect on their
> chosen way of operating.
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> 73,
> Paul EI5DI
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