Well put Randy. This is going downhill fast. Bad and sad.
73 Olof G0CKV
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> On 27 Oct 2017, at 20:28, Randy Thompson K5ZD <k5zd@charter.net> wrote:
>
> Terry,
>
> I fail to see the point of your message. Any comparison to high school
> athletes or other sports is irrelevant.
>
> 4U1WB was properly licensed and had entered CQ contests for many years. You
> have yet to provide a coherent rationale for your decision. Just admit you
> made an error, reinstate the entry, and move on.
>
> We need to encourage people to participate in and enter contests. Not drive
> them away with arbitrary disqualifications by the CQ WW or CQ WPX
> administrations.
>
> Randy, K5ZD
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
>> Terry Zivney
>> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 11:19 AM
>> To: CQ-Contest Reflector
>> Subject: [CQ-Contest] The Meaning of Disqualification
>>
>> The Meaning of Disqualification
>> Masa, AJ3M, has initiated a thread with a lengthy post about the
>> disqualification of 4U1WB in the recent CQ WPX SSB Contest.
>> Rather than trying to address all of Masa's concerns in one long post, I
>> will attempt to compose several focused messages.
>> The first message is on the meaning of disqualification.
>> Masa sent me the following on October 24:
>> "I am sure that you, as a fellow contester, know that considering an
>> entrant for a disqualification means that the contest committee is
>> challenging the operator’s integrity and sportsmanship. I fully
>> understand that the CQ WPX Contest Committee’s intention is to protect
>> the integrity of the competition and address any violations of the trust
>> that underlies radiosport competition. My reputation in the worldwide
>> contest community is very important to me. Our Club’s reputation is
>> equally important. The damage was done."
>> The meaning of DISQUALIFICATION for the CQ WPX Contest uses the following
>> dictionary definition:
>> "to put out of a competition etc for breaking rules. She was disqualified
>> for being too young." Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-
>> 2013 K Dictionaries Ltd Thus, disqualification in itself should not
>> impact ones reputation.
>> A recent news story (though not unique), illustrates this point. When a
>> high school athlete broke his leg in a cross-country competition, his
>> teammate carried him to the finish line. Both were disqualified because
>> they broke the rule that runners are prohibited from touching or
>> assisting another runner during the race. The pair's reputations seem to
>> have been enhanced by this event:
>> http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/10/high-school-runner-carries-teammate-
>> broken-leg
>> On the other hand, if the athletes had been disqualified for using
>> performance enhancing drugs, then their reputations would have been
>> negatively impacted.
>> Simply put, disqualification needs to be viewed in the proper
>> perspective.
>> I applaud Scott, KA9FOX, for his low-key response on this reflector on
>> June 3, 1994 to being disqualified in the 1993 WPX contest for signing
>> KG9/KA9FOX:
>> "The effort was not serious (nobody would compete seriously from my
>> seriously deficient station) so it was no biggie. Heck, it gave me
>> something fun to talk about at Dayton! (wore a name badge with "Dee
>> Qued" as the name)"
>> Terry N4TZ, CQ WPX Contest Director
>> This message posted at 1519 UTC, October 27, 2017
>>
>>
>>
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