Steve wrote:
> I think you've come up with a wonderful idea in which I would
> participate. The goals of 1) getting lots of hams involved in a
> 'demonstration' emergency/competitive event which would raise the
visibility
> (and hopefully desire to participate in contests) to lots of hams and B)
> raise the awareness to the non-ham community. I think the recent national
> coverage of the PCSAT proves that there are news and PR angles to some ham
> activities.
>
> The problem? It's a BIG JOB with lots of hard work that will take a
bunch
> of people a lot of time to do it all. It makes our WRTC events (which take
> typically one year of intense work and LOTS of volunteers to make it
happen)
> seem small by comparison. And someone has to drive the thing. Would that
be
> you?
>
> Cheers,
> Steve K7LXC
>
Would that be me? This is not a one man operation. Foist it all on me and
you might see something useful in the year 2014.
The basket of skills necessary are not a one-man-band operation. ARRL would
need to take a leadership role in all this. People with binary skills would
need to push a software app together to facilitate all the traffic.
Everybody would have to get trained. The PR people would activate. The
contesting folks would organize the flow and type of information.
I am thinking that I be - you be - we be - US. You want contesting to get
a feather in the cap at ARRL, FCC, US Congress, and public opinion? Then
the driving force would need to place contester's as a group squarely in the
driver's seat.
This contest will be brought to you by __________. Fill in the blank and
we're good to go to the party...
Ford-N0FP
ford@cmgate.com
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