[Moon-net] [Moon] ARRL EME Contest

Wed Apr 16 03:04:43 CDT 2008

Turn back the good old rules please!

My experience with contests shows that hard coded brains need SIMPLE
rules. There is another cathegory though. These last always cry over the
rules because some thing must be wrong if they can not win the contest.
Usually their problems are the rules and people who make the rules.

So turn back the good old rules. They were so simple that even SM2CEW
understood them. Strictly forbid JT65 and any digital mode until SM2CEW
learns how to use them. It will not be for long. As we all know he spent
his life learning to decode CW. May be he will learn how to use WSJT
during the rest of his life.

Isn't it high time to understand that the life is not circulating around
SM2CEW. The progress is going forward. Some of us are quickly following,
some of us slip out of the gaim due to hard coded brains.

I am sory that I was so brutal but I really got sick to read all the
absurdity of SM2CEW during the years.

73, Harry Popov LZ1BB

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 00:13 -0700, SV3AAF Petros wrote:
> Indeed ARRL contest had been a significant get together “on the air and off the moon” for all EMEers I believe.
> Since the part “on the internet and off the computer” was added or replaced the “on the air and off the moon” the contest was immediately spoiled.
> Put together new rules to patch up, further confuse, to legitimize the illegitimate and not enforcing those rules at the end created a contest that cancels itself.
> 
> SM2CEW’s comments express the truth and cover the issue anyway.
> 
> How can a contest be credible when the disqualifications are not taking place and the results are issued a few times without being sure that the final version is correct?
> 
> Regards, 73, Petros sv3aaf
> 
> Peter Sundberg <sm2cew at telia.com> wrote: I can remember when the ARRL EME Competition was the highlight of the year
> for moonbouncers. The rules were clear, and easy to understand. Reading the
> results and comments in QST was something to look forward to, and
> achievements were never questioned, insted they encouraged us mere mortals
> to push on forward, and improve our stations and operating practices.
> 
> Not so any more... the way the contest is handled is a total insult to
> those participating, especially those who praise fair game and contesting. 
> 
> Why have we seen this transformation from a highly respected event to an
> embarrassing soap opera? 
> 
> Well, the reason is clear, it's because of the constant maneuvering with
> new rules, and the total lack of enforcement of rules.
> 
> A bit of background information:
> 
> After the 2006 EME contest I sent a formal protest to the contest committee
> regarding stations who openly violated the rules. I also forwarded a number
> of logger and cluster extracts to show the committee what had been going
> on, and pinpointed the violations in these documents. This was also the
> sole reason for me entering "Assisted" category that year, as I had been
> monitoring loggers and clusters (of no use to me as a CW operator).
> 
> A while later, I was sent the full contest database, with the request to
> help identify the stations who were violating the rules. I did so, and sent
> the information back to the ARRL, hoping for a bit of correspondence
> regarding this issue. I received an acknowledgement that they had received
> the information.
> 
> When the results were finally published, I discovered that a number of
> stations had been moved to "Check Log", instead of being disqualified. As
> we all know, K1JT has been telling us that HE (and only he) examined the
> contest results, in search for violations of the rules. This he said, was
> in the interest of keeping it a fair game, and to enforce the rules.
> 
> Well, the only thing he did was to save his friends from the embarrassment
> of being disqualified, so it is clear that some officials at the ARRL are
> not at all interested in a fair game.
> 
> Why bring this up at this point then? 
> 
> Well, only to point at the fact that since 2006 the same person responsible
> for the above blocking of rule enforcement was involved in yet another
> revision of the contest rules, namely in 2007. 
> 
> Too eager to share the thoughts with the community, K1JT presented the new
> rules even before the ARRL had them on their website. The analyzis of the
> rules presented together with (one) version of the results is clear, and on
> the ARRL webpage we can read the following statemend from Ward N0AX:
> 
> "144 categories, to be exact. Only 28 categories had entries from a total
> of 184 entries, so perhaps this pie is being sliced a bit too narrowly?"
> 
> So, is there a reason for creating so many categories..?? Of course there
> is, everything is now so sliced up that a disqualification should not be an
> issue any more, as no one has the ability to understand the rules any more.
> Let alone send a formal protest..
> 
> Am I wrong in drawing these conclusisons...?  
> 
> Don't think so.. not even the ARRL have been able to present the correct
> results, despit many attempts. And the results published in QST Magazine
> still stands as the only printed results, and they will probably never be
> corrected. Why embarrass even more people by putting it right?
> 
> My "verdict" over all of this is, that when we let one man dominate EME,
> and decide for all others, this is what to expect! 
> 
> These actions are not possible to sweep under the carpet, because the
> contest is ruined for all future as it seems now. There will still be
> people entering the contest, of course, but it is not a contest any more.
> It is a joke of a contest, serving no purpose other than acting as an
> activity enhancer. 
> 
> This is good however, we need stations populating our bands. But the so
> called records set under present circumstances have absolutely NO value,
> and are not to be compared to the records set when the ARRL EME Competition
> was a true contest, based on a fair game for everyone.
> 
> Let's not be fooled into thinking something else.
> 
> CW is King!
> 
> 73 de Peter SM2CEW
> www.sm2cew.com
> http://blog.sm2cew.com
> 
> 
> 
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