[CQ-Contest] Proposed rules changes

[Doug Renwick]

Oh really?  Take the Olympics for example ... it's a contest.  Consider the
drug testing that takes place.  Everyone is presumed GUILTLY until proven
innocent.  Exactly opposite to your ramblings.  What you are saying, if
someone cheats smartly, its up to the contest committee to catch me.  Give
your head a shake.

Doug

I wasn't born in Saskatchewan, but I got here as soon as I could.
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A rule that requires anyone with a sniff of an award to record the entire
contest, just to prove their innocence, would be like the court system
requiring all citizens, innocent and otherwise, to wear body cameras at all
times so that in the event of some future incident, the court may review the
recording to prove innocence.

Forcing the majority to waive their right to be presumed innocent because
some operators may cheat is a perversion of most countries' bills of rights,
which govern all aspects of life.

Reasonable, in my view, is to attach the requirement of video recording,
showing all computer screens, keyboards and radios, of those operators who
have proven themselves to be dishonourable, as a condition for the lifting
of any sanction. As pointed out by others, an audio recording only proves a
QSO took place: it doesn't prove excess power, illegal use of assistance or
the use of non-amateur means to solicit Qs.

Nobody without cause should be required to prove innocence. You ARE
innocent. It's up to the court, or contest adjudicators, to prove guilt.

As I suggested, suspending presumption of innocence is reasonable for, as an
example, TO7A, and perhaps everyone else on the latest DQ list. But not for
everybody. Let's not begin contests assuming everyone is a liar, ok?

73, Kelly 
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