I have no idea what prompted the DQ this year. The following sentence that
Terry, N4TZ, cited was already included as VII. Prefix Multipliers (b) in
the 2006 WPX Contest rules, the oldest WPX rules available at the website:
Prefixes must be assigned by the licensing authority of the country of
operation.
https://www.cqwpx.com/rules/rules_2006.pdf
73,
Masa
AJ3M
On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Albert Crespo <vp2vfe@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 4U1WB has participated in the following SSB CQWPX contests,
> 2016, 2013, 2010, 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002, 2001, 1998.
> 4U1WB has been used in the 1992 CW CQWPX contest.
>
> 4U1WB has participated in CQWW SSB in 2016,2015,2006,2003.
>
> This alleged violation is basically whether the United Nations has
> jurisdiction to issue an amateur radio license. If it does not, then all
> prior usages are invalid. If it does, why has this operation all of sudden
> cause a violation of contest rules?
>
> In most disputes there is some input before a decision is made, and then a
> reasonable time to dispute it.
> The CQWPX committee has had the log for greater then 5 months of the
> alleged violator of the rules. There appears to have been no notice or
> input into the committee's decision.
> 5 days to appeal something that an alleged violator even knows is under
> submission for a decision?
> When you have a 5 day time limit to submit after a contest, you have
> notice you have to comply with that requirement.
> Many people have demanding lives that prevents them from responding to out
> of the blue emails from CQWPX within five day time limit to contest a
> decision they have had no input nor notice in the first place.
> Or, heaven forbid a person is ill and cannot respond to emails with
> five days.
> Simply printing a disqualification in the magazine is not sufficient to
> explain what happened here.
> 73, Albert
>
>
>
>
> On Friday, October 27, 2017, 12:52:03 PM GMT, <john@kk9a.com> wrote:
>
>
> Perhaps sending a copy of the UN issued license would resolve this.
>
> John KK9A
>
>
>
> To: CQ-Contest@contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] 4U1WB disqualified in the 2017 CQ World-Wide
> WPX SSB Contest
> From: "Masa Miura, AJ3M" <masa.miura.aj3m@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 19:50:05 -0400
> List-post: <mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Greetings All:
>
>
>
> The CQ WPX Contest Committee decided to disqualify 4U1WB in the 2017 CQ
> World-Wide WPX SSB Contest. The final results were published in the
> September 2017 issue of CQ Magazine and a list of disqualified entries,
> including 4U1WB, is on page 109. See the following website:
> http://www.cq-amateur-radio.com/cq_contests/cq_ww_wpx_
> contest/cq_ww_wpx_ssb_
> contest/2017_cq_ww_wpx_ssb_contest/2017_cq_ww_wpx_ssb_line_scores.pdf
>
>
>
>
> I sent the email below on October 24, 2017 to Terry, N4TZ (n4tz at
> cqwpx.com),
> CQ WPX Contest Director, regarding the Committee's decision. Terry has not
> yet replied to me. I also copied Rich, W2VU (w2vu at cq-amateur-radio.com)
> of CQ Magazine, the Contest sponsor.
>
>
>
> As you will note below, I sent my first email to Terry about the
> disqualification on October 22. He indicated in his email dated October 23
> to me that 4U1WB was disqualified because the call sign was not issued by
> the FCC while the log that I submitted showed the United States as the
> country of 4U1WB's operation. 4U1WB is a United Nations call sign and the
> station is located in Washington, DC, the capital of the United States.
>
>
>
> I do not know if Terry or the Contest Committee contacted me by email
> before the disqualification was published. The October 23 email from Terry
> did not refer to any prior notification. Please see the following from the
> WPX Contest rules:
>
> D. Disciplinary Actions: In the event of a violation, the entrant is
> subject to disqualification at the discretion of the Committee.
>
> 1. DISQUALIFICATION: Entry will be listed at the end of the published
> results and is not eligible for an award.
>
> 2. Notification of Committee actions will be sent by email to the address
> provided with the log submission. The entrant has five days to appeal the
> decision to the Contest Director. After that time the decision is final.
>
>
>
> I looked for such an email in my inbox and spam folder after I found out in
> the CQ Magazine that 4U1WB was disqualified. I did not find any prior
> correspondence from them. I cannot say for sure that I was not contacted by
> email. I believe that some emails are getting lost in cyberspace. It might
> have been in my spam folder and was deleted for some reason. However, I
> would like to highlight that the Contest Director relied on unreceipted
> email(s) and made such an important decision that could have extremely
> serious negative impact on a fellow contester's reputation in the contest
> community.
>
>
>
> I have participated in the WPX Contests many times from the 4U1WB club
> station mainly because I enjoy contesting and being part of the worldwide
> contest community. I will probably never win a major contest from the 4U1WB
> station. Another reason is that the WPX Contest rules include the
> following: Special event, commemorative, and other unique prefix stations
> are encouraged to participate.
>
>
>
> If the Contest Director maintains his position and intends to disqualify
> 4U1WB again in the future because of the same reason that he cited, it
> means that 4U1WB is not welcome to participate in the WPX Contests. 4U1WB
> will not participate in the future unless a positive outcome is achieved.
>
>
>
> I will keep you all posted.
>
>
>
> 73,
>
>
>
> Masa
>
>
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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