[CQ-Contest] CQ WW SSB

[Radio K0HB]

Paul, you hold that opinion.  It’s a fine opinion and cost-free to hold where you live on I Street in Washington, DC, USA since you have no skin in the game.

If you had skin in the game and lived in the Crimea, at the present time it seems as a ham you can get on the air with a Russian call sign, or you can be QRT.  If it were me, just call me RA3xyz!!!

I have no skin in the game either, and my opinion is not based on international politics, but rather on my love of radio and my conviction that ham radio should ignore politics. 

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

73, de Hans, K0HB
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From: Paul Stoetzer 
Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2014 7:00 PM
To: Radio K0HB 
Cc: k5zd at charter.net ; CQ-Contest ; Editor W2VU ; Publisher K2RED 
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] CQ WW SSB
The rules require entrants to certify that they "operated according to all rules and regulations that pertain to amateur radio for the station location." 


The only legitimate rules and regulations in Crimea are those issued by Ukraine, the legitimate, internationally recognized government for that area. Using a license issued by the Russian Federation is contrary to the rules of the contest.


73,


Paul, N8HM


On Saturday, October 18, 2014, Radio K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:

  (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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  . Lake Vermilion DX Assn - http://www.lvdxa.org
  . Royal Naval Amateur Radio Society - http://www.rnars.org.uk/
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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


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