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

[Clive Whelan]

-----Original Message-----
From: Clive Whelan [mailto:clive.whelan at btinternet.com]
Sent: 01 April 2007 16:16
To: Ray - G4FON
Subject: RE: [UK-CONTEST] CQ magazine to withdraw contest
sponsorship?


Erm I already did, think again!

73


Clive

-----Original Message-----
From: Ray - G4FON [mailto:ray at g4fon.co.uk]
Sent: 01 April 2007 11:03
To: 'Clive Whelan'; uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: RE: [UK-CONTEST] CQ magazine to withdraw contest
sponsorship?


Clive,

Check the date....

73

Ray, G4FON



-----Original Message-----
From: uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Clive Whelan
Sent: 01 April 2007 11:23
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/registra
tion/register&destination=login&nextstep=gather&application=
reg30-liveonline&applicationURL=http://www.washingtonpost.co
m/wp-dyn/content/liveonline/?nid%253Droll_discuss

73


Clive
GW3NJW

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