[SFDXA] CQ DQs Two Dozen CQ World Wide DX Contest SSB Participants

[Bill]

    CQ DQs Two Dozen CQ World Wide DX Contest SSB Participants

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04/23/2015

The CQ World Wide Contest Committee has disqualified 2 dozen entrants in 
the 2014 CQ World Wide DX Contest (SSB) last October. Another six 
received warnings. The committee said that it has warned contesters to 
play fairly and to obey the rules. The vast majority of the 
disqualifications were for “unclaimed assistance.”

“The CQ WW Contest Committee takes its job as referee for the contest 
very seriously,” the Committee*said* 
<http://cqww.com/blog/cq-ww-ssb-2014-disqualifications-and-warnings/>in 
a web blog post. “Each year a group of dedicated members spends many 
hours poring over logs, listening to SDR recordings, and following up on 
input from the contest community. We do not always have perfect 
information, and it is difficult when each entrant is operating from 
their own station without any outside observer. Even so, the logs and 
recordings often tell us a clear story. It is our job as referees to 
call them as we see them.”

Disqualified entrants are given 5 days to respond. “We do this to allow 
everyone the opportunity to present an explanation of what appears in 
the log,” the Committee said.

CQ received 8283 logs containing more than 5.2 million contacts for the 
CQ WW SSB. Contest participants representing 223 different countries.

Log checking for the 2014 CQ WW DX Contest CW is now complete and have 
been sent to/CQ/Magazine. Official results will appear in the May 2015 
issue of/CQ/.

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