[UK-CONTEST] CQSSB Congrats!

[Roger G3SXW]

Dear UK-Contest,
CQ Magazine Aug 2010 edition publishes results of the CQ WW SSB 2009 contest. Special congratulations are due to:

GI5K operated by MI0LLL: 1st Europe and 2nd World on 3.7MHz. Trophy winner. Chris scored 479,853 points, beaten into 1st World by the super-station at VY2ZM, with 573,780 pts.

GW4BLE: 4th Europe, 2nd zone 14, all-band. Steve has featured in the Top Scores tables for as long as we can remember!

GA2MP operated by GM3WOJ: 3rd zone 14.

Full results are at:
http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/cq_contest_awards/2009/2009_cq_ww_ssb_contest.pdf

Last year there was a concentrated emphasis on checking the Multi-Single category with several disqualifications. This year the 'Single-Operator Non-Assisted' category was targeted. Statistical analysis by Committee confirmed a higher than normal 'hit-rate' matching the timing of DX Cluster spots to QSOs logged. Of all the leading single-op unassisted logs which were deemed by the log-checking Committee to be possibly using DX Cluster 75 were directly asked to confirm their category. At that point 29 asked to be reclassified as Assisted. In addition seven stations were disqualified and a further four received yellow cards. Of these 40 stations 32 were in zones 15, 16 and 20. Some of these stations no doubt made a simple error on their Cabrillo header file but others deliberately tried to break the rules.  Multiple disqualifications will also appear in the CW results to be published shortly.

Why hasn't such action been taken before now? Simple: volunteer time. This year we were able to harvest the hundreds of man-hours and the computing skills needed to 'prove beyond reasonable doubt' that rules had been broken.

73 de Roger/G3SXW.