[UK-CONTEST] CQ magazine to withdraw contest sponsorship?

[Paul J. Piercey]

Good thing I got my WPX score submitted already.

This is a terrible development although its typical of large entites, such
as governments and businesses, to "pass the buck", as it were, in order to
absolve themselves from that for which they should be blamed.

Oh well, I guess I'll have more free time this Fall.


73 -- Paul VO1HE  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com 
> [mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Clive Whelan
> Sent: April 1, 2007 10:23
> To: uk-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] CQ magazine to withdraw contest sponsorship?
> 
> I thought uk contesters might be interested in the following 
> from a meeting between the CEO of CQ magazine and the general 
> manager of ARRL, reported in the Washington Post. I am 
> personally saddened by this news.
> 
> " CQ magazine has sadly decided to withdraw support from all 
> the contests it currently sponsors. As well as the huge 
> amount of adjudication work undertaken by our band of willing 
> volunteers, they have recently been the recipients of an 
> increasing volume of complaints about conditions, sometimes 
> virile, and occasionally abusive. In the current sunspot 
> minimum conditions entrants around the world have typically 
> been unable to make few if any QSOs on 28Mhz, and even 21Mhz 
> has been very patchy. We are puzzled that the Amateur Radio 
> community does not seem to realise that CQ magazine has 
> little control over  conditions, despite state of the art 
> "ionosphere warming" equipment and antennas installed at 
> Hicksville N.Y. However, it does seem that CQ magazine has 
> become negatively associated with these poor conditions, and 
> our circulation has suffered as a consequence. While other 
> magazines might  be happy with such a scenario, CQ magazine 
> does not wish to be associated with anything except the 
> highest quality , both of technical articles, but also the 
> results of the contests it sponsors.
> Therefore, effective 4/1/2007 CQ magazine withdraws entirely 
> from its contest sponsorship. We are anxious to point up that 
> this is purely a matter of suspension rather than 
> termination, and the board of CQ magazine will review this 
> decision in 3-5 years time, and hopes to reinstate all events 
> at this time, subject to sufficient solar activity.
> Finally, we envision a bright future for contesting in the long term"
> 
> The full text of the conversation may be seen at :
> 
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?node=admin/registration/register&de
stination=login&nextstep=gather&application=reg30-liveonline&applicationURL=
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/liveonline/?nid%253Droll_discus
s
> 
> 73
> 
> 
> Clive
> GW3NJW
> 
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