[CQ-Contest] N5OT is shooting blanks

[r-emails at n5ot.com]

My apologies, I have a belligerent computer here that thinks it is funny 
to delete the content of some messages I send to some email groups.  My 
last post is a good example, pointed out to me by no less than two 
people who were just dying to see what I had to say.  Content below.  
That said, I will write a response to Matt's subsequent considered and 
well constructed posts straightaway.  First my response to Pete's post.  
Here it is:

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Thanks Pete.

Either you're agreeing with me or you are implying that a person with a 
USA callsign doesn't have to follow the rules if they are not a citizen? 
  I feel sure that is not what you meant.

I'm glad to sidestep the CEPT issue just to fast tract the issue that is 
more black-and-white, that unless IZ3EYZ is a US citizen, he violated 
the terms of his USA license, which should plainly result in his removal 
from the competition.  I'll leave the debate about whether to DQ or 
recharacterize his entry as a check-log to others.

In the case of IZ3EYZ's entry, people focusing on CEPT is just bogging 
down the simpler issue - it's an FCC issue more than a CEPT issue.

I agree that one explanation of what IZ3EYZ was thinking was that using 
his own call would be a liability, but I am only guessing, and that is 
really not germane to whether or not he was in compliance with the terms 
of his USA license.

73 - Mark N5OT