[CQ-Contest] CQ WW SSB

[Radio K0HB]

(W2VU and K2RED added to the conversation on the advice of K5ZD)

Here's the long and short of it from my viewpoint.

A certain boy in a certain place has a hobby radio station.  He wishes to 
participate in radiosport contests run by hobbyist magazines in another 
place.

His license conditions including how he must identify his station are 
dictated by whatever government has authority over that place at any given 
time.

Other governments, rightly or wrongly, might dispute that authority, but the 
boy in that place is not subject to the authority of those other countries.

Now those hobby magazines have decided that the politicians (in their 
country) shall be the ultimate authority whether the boy and his radio (in 
another country) are eligible to play in their contest.

Methinks the hobby magazines are taking themselves far too seriously, and in 
an international hobby have cloaked themselves in misplaced provincial 
patriotism.

dit dit

73, de Hans, K0HB
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-----Original Message----- 
From: Randy Thompson K5ZD
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2014 1:23 PM
To: 'Andy Kazantsev' ; 'CQ-Contest'
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW SSB

The CQ WW Contest Committee was very divided on this issue. The Editor and
Publisher of CQ Magazine have made this policy decision. Any comments or
appeals should be directed to CQ.

Randy, K5ZD