[Moon] ARRL 2007 Results

[k2dh at frontiernet.net]

The ARRL has messed up the results of this contest for- how many years  
in a row now- 5? 6?

It's really inexcusable that the EME community is getting treated this  
way.  If they tell us it's because of factors like a lack of  
experienced help collecting and tabulating results of contests, then I  
think if I were an HF contester I'd be very DIS-inclined to  
participate in the big ARRL HF contests for fear of my results being  
even more screwed up than they are in a small one like the EME  
Competition.  I mean, what are we talking about- a couple of hundred  
logs?  A few thousand QSO's?

It's really very insulting to me to find that not only did they goof  
up the article that was supposed to be the tabulation of the results  
in QST (I think a classic example, and there are many in this year's  
listing, is that NA4N WON the 902MHz category with 60,000 points- I'm  
quite sure he didn't operate on that band during the contest and to  
think he scored 60,000 points would mean that he either had about 150  
QSO's and 4 multipliers (about all you could possibly get on that  
band) or QSO's on 900MHz have been given a huge amount of extra value  
(I won that band with 1Q and 1Mult the year I turned in a log for that  
band)!  Didn't anybody even proof-read the scores to see if they even  
made sense?), but they haven't even had the courtesy to correct the  
mistakes as quickly as possible and get the REAL results out to the  
people who participated in the contest.

I know I didn't win any category- I knew that even before I submitted  
my log.  But I want to see how I fared against all my competition, and  
I can't even get a look at that (and now my question is, would I trust  
the numbers anyway, after the way they messed it up this year?).

ARRL- instead of some vague "corrections will be made and announced at  
some later date" (which I'm suspicious may never come), why don't you  
put a stake in the ground and tell us- WHEN WILL YOU PUBLISH THE  
CORRECT AND TRUE RESULTS OF THIS YEAR'S EME COMPETITION???

I was unwilling to do this, but I will not turn in a log next year  
unless there are some concrete changes made to the Contest Branch to  
fix this problem.  This mess has gone on waaaay too long.

Respectfully,
Dave K2DH


Quoting Paul Chominski <pchomins at san.rr.com>:

> To All,
> QST by ARRL published only first places in ARRL EME 2007 Contest. On  
>  ARRL website I could not find more information's.
> I would like to know what place I was taking, who was active and   
> results for other stations. We are small EME community, but very   
> advanced and in my opinion we deserved serious publicity, at least   
> as good as 10 meters HF contest participants.
>
> VY 73 Paul WA6PY