The picnic-ers do, in fact, look at them, even though they claim "not to be
contesters". This is where they get their start. It's a financial decision,
pure and simple, not to print line scores. By the way, if you want, you can
download PDF versions of the QST writeup including all the line scores, just
like before. This is advertised in the QST writeup.
There is also more contesting and technical information available to hams
than ever before, as well. QEX and the various conference proceedings are
as good or better than anything that has been published in the amateur press
before. If there was a sizeable audience for serious techie stuff, then Ham
Radio and Communications Quarterly would still be in business.
QST product reviews contain more information, measured with better
techniques and equipment, than at any time in history. If hams built more
stuff, you'd see more building articles. But they don't. We can have a
dandy chicken-and-the-egg argument about why that is so, but it is not
limited to ham radio, I assure you. If you want more building articles,
then, by golly, WRITE ONE. Better yet, start selling the idea of building
to your fellow hams that aren't building now.
73, Ward N0AX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Clarson" <mclarson@rcc.com>
To: "'Ward Silver'" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>; "'CQ-Contest Reflector'"
<cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 10:34 AM
Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] Line Scores
> So all the scores get published for field day so the picknickers can not
> look at them? Not publish scores for events where all the people care
about
> is the scores? Dosn't make sense. And the VHF contest results won't even
> take up much room yet each line entry will still have just as much
> readership as each Field Day line entry. If the trend continues, all we
will
> be getting is a monthly catalog with puff pieces and wartered down
equipment
> reviews. --Mike, WV2ZOW
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Ward Silver
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 12:58 PM
> To: CQ-Contest Reflector
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Line Scores
>
>
> Because it's "not a contest, it's an operating event" and because it forms
a
> valuable bridge between the non-contest and contest communities.
>
> 73, Ward N0AX
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Geiger" <johngeig@yahoo.com>
> To: "Ward Silver" <hwardsil@centurytel.net>; "CQ-Contest Reflector"
> <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 9:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Line Scores
>
>
> > SO why are Field Day line scores still published?
> > They probably make up more pages than all the other
> > contests combined.
> >
> > 73s JOhn NE0P
> >
>
>
>
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