[CQ-Contest] TO7A Comments, Data and Log Checking

[Jeff Clarke]

Note Randy's first email to Dim is dated 3 months after the contest. So, not having internet access on the way home to UT from FM isn't an issue. He had 5 days starting March 6th to respond.

Did anyone else notice that Randy didn't even mention anything on the reflector about the TO7A DQ until his May 7th post? Dim had replied almost immediately to Randy's earlier post a couple days earlier about the results being available, when he probably realized he had been officially DQed. Plus, Randy sent the email about his possible DQ almost 2 months before to the SAME email address that Dim used to post his responses on this reflector.

Dim was given the opportunity to respond to the cheating accusations but chose not to. If the committee had seen the YouTube video a couple months ago maybe they would have taken a different view. Dim appears to be a very accomplished SO2R operator.

Could he have made a mistake in his entry and really meant to submit it as assisted? He surely could have discussed this with Randy and could have been reclassified instead of being DQed. He chose not to make contact.

The rule says if you don't respond to a cheating accusation that the decision is final. His DQ is almost more due to that fact than if he really cheated.

Maybe in the future contact information should be required with an entry in case of discrepancies so contact can be made to discuss them.

Jeff