[NCC] Fw: [CQ-Contest] CQ Asks Contesters to E-mail All Logs

[Scott Detloff K8DX]

> To all amateurs active in CQ-sponsored contests:
>
> Due to security concerns, CQ Communications Inc. is asking all
participants
> in CQ-sponsored amateur radio contests to submit their logs
electronically.
> All logs for the CQ World Wide DX Contest, the CQ WPX Contest, the CQ
World
> Wide 160-Meter Contest, the CQ World Wide VHF Contest and the CQ/RTTY
> Journal RTTY contests should be submitted via e-mail per instructions in
> the rules for each contest. In light of recent events regarding hazardous
> items sent through the mail, logs received through the mail at the CQ
> offices will be held unopened until all potential health risks have been
> evaluated. CQ says it cannot guarantee that logs submitted by postal mail
> will be opened. Contesters who want to be sure their scores will be
> counted must submit by e-mail.
>
> "We regret the need to inconvenience those contesters who do not have
> access to internet-connected computers, or who choose to log by hand and
> submit those hand-written logs," explained CQ Communications President
Dick
> Ross, K2MGA. "But our logs come from all over the world. While the risk
> that amateurs might be involved in any sort of terroristic activity is
> extremely small, mail en route may be subject to tampering. We cannot ask
> our staff members or contest committee volunteers to possibly expose
> themselves to dangerous packages sent through the mail."
>
> "We are not giving in to terrorism," added CQ magazine Editor Rich
Moseson,
> W2VU. "We are facing a very real and fast-growing threat and we are taking
> reasonable precautions to protect our staff and volunteers."
>
> CQ requests that this information be disseminated widely so as many
> contesters as possible will be aware of this rules change before the SSB
> weekend of the CQ World Wide DX Contest on October 27-28.
> -----------
> Thank you and I hope to see you in the CQWW this weekend.
>
> 73,
> Rich W2VU
> Editor, CQ
>


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