[CQ-Contest] The Meaning of Disqualification

[Randy Thompson K5ZD]

Terry,

I fail to see the point of your message.  Any comparison to high school athletes or other sports is irrelevant.

4U1WB was properly licensed and had entered CQ contests for many years. You have yet to provide a coherent rationale for your decision. Just admit you made an error, reinstate the entry, and move on.

We need to encourage people to participate in and enter contests.  Not drive them away with arbitrary disqualifications by the CQ WW or CQ WPX administrations.

Randy, K5ZD


> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
> Terry Zivney
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 11:19 AM
> To: CQ-Contest Reflector
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] The Meaning of Disqualification
> 
>  The Meaning of Disqualification
> Masa, AJ3M, has initiated a thread with a lengthy post about the
> disqualification of 4U1WB in the recent CQ WPX SSB Contest.
> Rather than trying to address all of Masa's concerns in one long post, I
> will attempt to compose several focused messages.
> The first message is on the meaning of disqualification.
> Masa sent me the following on October 24:
> "I am sure that you, as a fellow contester, know that considering an
> entrant for a disqualification means that the contest committee is
> challenging the operator’s integrity and sportsmanship. I fully
> understand that the CQ WPX Contest Committee’s intention is to protect
> the integrity of the competition and address any violations of the trust
> that underlies radiosport competition. My reputation in the worldwide
> contest community is very important to me. Our Club’s reputation is
> equally important. The damage was done."
> The meaning of DISQUALIFICATION for the CQ WPX Contest uses the following
> dictionary definition:
> "to put out of a competition etc for breaking rules. She was disqualified
> for being too young." Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-
> 2013 K Dictionaries Ltd Thus, disqualification in itself should not
> impact ones reputation.
> A recent news story (though not unique), illustrates this point. When a
> high school athlete broke his leg in a cross-country competition, his
> teammate carried him to the finish line. Both were disqualified because
> they broke the rule that runners are prohibited from touching or
> assisting another runner during the race.  The pair's reputations seem to
> have been enhanced by this event:
> http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/10/high-school-runner-carries-teammate-
> broken-leg
> On the other hand, if the athletes had been disqualified for using
> performance enhancing drugs, then their reputations would have been
> negatively impacted.
> Simply put, disqualification needs to be viewed in the proper
> perspective.
> I applaud Scott, KA9FOX, for his low-key response on this reflector on
> June 3, 1994 to being disqualified in the 1993 WPX contest for signing
> KG9/KA9FOX:
> "The effort was not serious (nobody would compete seriously from my
> seriously deficient station) so it was no biggie.  Heck, it gave me
> something fun to talk about at Dayton!  (wore a name badge with "Dee
> Qued" as the name)"
> Terry N4TZ, CQ WPX Contest Director
> This message posted at 1519 UTC, October 27, 2017
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