[CQ-Contest] RDXC Entry Reclassified to High Power
W0MU Mike Fatchett
w0mu at w0mu.com
Mon Oct 10 11:28:13 EDT 2016
I agree 100 percent.
I have also contacted the WRTC and received and immediate answer that
they are aware of the issues with RDXC and are in discussions about what
to do.
I have also got the run around from RA3AUU. I would like to know who
the other RDXC officals are. It might appear that RA3AUU could be
calling all the shots. Could it be that he is not forwarding on our
concerns to the other officials if there are indeed others?
There has to be enough proof that the majority of the community feels
that indeed a contest sanction of a DQ or reclassification was
justified. I have a bit of an issue with the reclassification. If you
claimed one thing and it is proven that you operated another you should
be DQed. Reclassification is today's equivalent of politically correct
by giving someone a way out to save face or embarrassment. The only
lesson learned by this is that yes indeed you can get away with
cheating. Sorry, if you cheat and get DQed there should be serious
consequences even in a hobby radio sport.
W0MU
On 10/9/2016 10:34 AM, Drew Vonada-Smith wrote:
> Contest Friends,
>
> This is the worst possible outcome, the one I feared. If RDXC has discouraged Bob from working further contests, this alone is more of a detriment to our contest community than all the benefits of RDXC are worth. Bob is understandably tired of the fight, but let's support him nonetheless. If you call a man a cheater, you had better do so in the open, with the facts to back it up and make your reasoning clear. In this, RDXC is clearly deficient. In recent years, CQ WW has done this the right way. This is the wrong way.
>
> My emails to RDXC have resulted in responses (all from RA3AUU) amounting to little more than "we have always done it this way". That, whether true or not, is irrelevant. Igor didn’t even remember my concerns from last year. This tells me that they (he?) simply don't care.
>
> My boycotting of this contest goes without saying. But I will also be contacting WRTC today and making my concerns of impropriety regarding RDXC clearly known. This issue affects WRTC qualification, and as such is certainly of legitimate concern to them. I request that those of you who agree with me do the same.
>
> 73,
> Drew K3PA
>
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> From: Bob Henderson <bob.5b4agn at gmail.com>
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> This will be my final post on this subject unless the RDXC committee
> suddenly relents; making available to scrutiny the elaborate analysis they
> claim to have carried out. I see little prospect of this given the
> complete lack of evidence any such analysis exists. It is time for me to
> move on to enjoy more productive pursuits. You might imagine, by now I
> have more than had my fill of this issue.
>
>
> Thank you once again to all who have lent support in my fruitless fight
> against this injustice. Not all notes have been entirely supportive. Some
> seem to feel I have been unfair in the limited criticism I have made on the
> behaviour of RA3AUU. On the contrary, I believe I have shown remarkable
> restraint. It has been suggested I have committed a sin by drawing
> attention to what has occurred; apparently I will have set back the fight
> against LP power cheats. Forgive me if I lack sympathy for this view. Should
> a setback have been suffered this will be entirely due to a corrupt system
> of adjudication which embraces the belief it is acceptable to hang a few
> innocents as an example to others who may be guilty.
>
>
> In my public discourse I set out to limit my observations to those which
> challenge the efficacy of the allegation and the lack of fairness in the
> process leading to the sanction which flowed from it. I have held back
> from expressing my view on the origins of this sorry saga. I will hold
> back no longer.
>
>
> Despite his protestations to the contrary, evidence points to the motor
> behind all of this being RA3AUU himself. At the outset he established
> himself as my sole interface to the RDXC committee. All contact would be
> via him as the English speaker. Until the final note from UA1AAF no other
> members of the committee have been identified. RA3AUU is also the owner of
> P33W; the only station with which comparative RBN data has been
> presented. Most
> likely the actions taken stem from an emotionally charged belief my LP
> score was too close for comfort to the HP score of LZ2HM who operated P33W.
>
>
> A review of my archive of communications with RA3AUU reveals him to have
> acted in a disingenuous fashion with twists, turns and cartwheels
> characterising his dialogue from 11th August onward. Why might this be if
> the process was being handled with honesty?
>
>
> Despite protestations to the contrary, evidence firmly points to the
> motivation behind this attack having originated in the P33W shack. While
> the source of this motivation is clear the nature of it is less so. The
> most charitable of the possibilities I have entertained is that RA3AUU and
> his prot?g? LZ2HM reacted emotionally to the gap between my LP score and
> the HP score of P33W. Likely it wasn?t long before they became convinced
> the only possible explanation had to be I had cheated. LZ2HM is highly
> confident in his own talents and RA3AUU enormously proud of his P33W
> station; what other reason could there be? Under the guise of objective
> analysis a search for evidence supporting the flawed contention will have
> followed. Once collected, all that remained was to persuade other members
> of RDXC committee and retribution could swiftly follow.
>
>
> In more recent communication I sense signs of regret in RA3AUU that he
> chose to travel this road but all too late. Having bulldozed the committee
> into accepting his ?analysis? there would be no way back without
> unacceptable loss of face. The die was firmly cast well before the door to
> communication with me was opened.
>
>
> My conclusions:
>
> - RA3AUU?s clear conflict of interest should have entirely precluded his
> involvement in this process, if indeed there would have been a process
> without his direct involvement.
>
>
> - Aspects of RDXC adjudication have given rise to concern among
> participants over several years. The manner in which my case has been
> conducted highlights a huge deficit in the integrity of the adjudication
> process. I hope the RDXC committee will learn from it.
>
>
> - RDXC is a WRTC 2018 qualifying event. It is to be hoped members of
> the sanctioning committee will consider this matter serious enough to
> justify their own investigation.
>
>
> - Perhaps a code of conduct governing adjudication of international
> contests is required. With establishment of a standard governing the
> reasonable determination cheating has taken place and the application of
> appropriate sanction, ill-considered and partisan adjudication might then
> be avoided. Contests whose adjudicators decline to subscribe, might
> also be avoided.
>
> This past 8 weeks have by far been the most unpleasant I have had to endure
> in the whole of my ham radio career. Nothing else comes within 100 miles. It
> is now time for me to draw a line. My enthusiasm for contesting having
> been thoroughly drained, I will for now, better spend my time elsewhere.
>
>
> Bob, 5B4AGN
>
> P3F in RDXC 2016, SOAB Mix LP.
>
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