- [CQ-Contest] Re: IARU contest/resultsHam radio is a hobby, but a lot of people dedicates a lot of timeand money to it, taking it seriously.To "take it seriously" it's not a sign to be abnormal, but a sort ofrespect for the hobby and the people dealing with.Concerning IARU results, it's evident to the stones that somethingis wrong in the results of the last 5 years, at least in the mixedmodes categories, but I can't believe that one of the major amateurassociation could have or support a contest committe deliberatelybehaving like someone (see above) told becuse upset.I can't believe the IARU organization itself could accept a shamefulmanaging of it's main HF contest, expecially if it is true what it wastold to me, that IARU is the only contest where checkers are payed.In the IARU, a committee who's not doing at all it's job would reallymake fun of the amateur community, not only of contesters, and thiscouldn't be acceptable by anyone.This is my opinion, and because of it I think what was noticed isdue to the rules aging and to a weak checking method, may be both injunction with a lack in the attention and some mistake, no one isperfect.A thief robbed ? Well, he only is the bad one to punish but it is notcorrect to accuse who represent the law as the reason of stolen gear.On the other hand, if a "law" is evidently proved to be not actual,beeing easily cheatable (ie. the guilty can't be found or proven),there is a very urgent need to act for changing things in the bestpossible way.If later, in front of the evidence, nothing changes, the "law men",those who should act in updating the rules in our case, also becomeresponsible of the sin, and should be replaced before the damagesbecomes unrepairable, by more qualified ones.It's a pity if a great contest like the IARU will drop in interest,but if nothing changes about rules or checking, I'll evaluate theopportunity to use that July week-end for typical summer purposes,weather is pretty nice in that period.I feel I'm not alone in this thought.,
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