s55o napisal/-a:A certificate of participation will be awarded to each IARU member society HQ station
Še ARRLov odgovor direktno. CUL Danilo, S50U
Dear Fellow Amateur:
We are writing to you because you have been involved in organizing an IARU member-society HQ station operation in recent IARU HF World Championships.
As you probably know, a controversy developed with regard to the 2009 event. As a result, the ARRL - as the administrator of the event on behalf of the IARU Administrative Council - has announced that it will not adjudicate HQ station logs in the future.
We realize that a number of HQ station teams, especially in Europe, regard competition as one of the main reasons to participate. We understand that there is interest among European HQ teams in accepting responsibility for adjudicating HQ entries. We welcome this and will be pleased to cooperate. We will be glad to share the submitted HQ station logs and the results of our crosschecking with a committee selected by HQ station organizers themselves.
While the problem of "unique" QSOs is a difficult one, we hope that HQ stations will not be discouraged from making QSOs within their own country. This raises the visibility of the IARU member-society within its own country, which supports IARU objectives. However, all participants - including those who are not competing - should be encouraged to make as many QSOs as they can with other stations and not just with their own national team. Also, all participants should be encouraged to observe the rules that limit an operator to the use of one call sign, and that limit the use of a transmitter to one call sign, during the event.
To provide greater recognition to more HQ teams, perhaps ways can be found to recognize outstanding contributions to the IARU HF World Championship by measures other than total score. For example, recognition could be given to the HQ teams who provide the most QSOs outside their own country, the most QSOs outside their own zone, and the most QSOs outside their own continent. Recognition also could be given to the efforts of smaller member-societies that are not able to activate as many as 12 operating positions for the entire 24-hour contest period.
We welcome your thoughts on these suggestions.
73, Sean Kutzko, KX9X
Contest Branch Manager
ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio(tm)
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