[HQRP] FW: [CQ-Contest] IARU NEWS - YOUR HELP IS NEEDED!

[Dale L Martin]

I like to operate the IARU HF World Championship contest (mid-July each
year), QRP.  There is no division of power categories (HP, LP, QRP) in this
contest.  It's a fun contest (work stateside and the world) with a lot of DX
activity and medium US activity.

A few of us over the past couple of years have pestered Dave/K1ZZ to see
about including a QRP category in the IARU.  It looks like some results have
come of that effort (two or three e-mails on my part and a number of e-mails
on the part of others).

If you contest (or even don't, for that matter), QRP or otherwise, please
consider contacting and sharing your thoughts about a rules change to the
IARU contest to include a QRP category with the your Contest Advisory
Committee reprentative (link below).

73,
dale, kg5u


-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of wo4o@juno.com
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 10:31 AM
To: CQ-Contest@contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] IARU NEWS - YOUR HELP IS NEEDED!



The IARU Administrative Council took the following action (this is taken
from the news release issued following the meeting):

"12. The Council requested that the ARRL, as the contest organizer, have
its Contest Advisory Committee consider the merits of proposals for
changes in the rules of the IARU HF World Championship."

David Sumner, K1ZZ, has confirmed that "a study by the ARRL Contest
Advisory Committee has been commissioned as to whether, and if so, how,
low-power and QRP categories should be added to the IARU HF World
Championship. If the study concludes that rules changes should be made,
the CAC has been asked to include recommendations for doing so in a way
that does not increase the net cost of administration of the contest."

Interested parties may comment to their division CAC representatives
whose contact information is listed at
http://www.arrl.org/contests/cac.html.

Please contact your CAC representative(s) to express your support for
these favorable changes.

Here are some reasons these changes will prove to be favorable:

1) Adding additional categories will increase participation.

2) Adding additional categories, will mean the LP and QRP operators who
usually did a "part-time", semi-serious operation, will devote more time
to seriously compete with other LP or QRP stations.  More stations will
be on the air longer.

Please forward this announcement to another contester not on this list.

Thank you, in advance, for contacting your CAC representative about this
important issue.

73, Ric - Wo4o


http://www.qrz.com/callsign/Wo4o



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