Al,
I think I am not alone is saying all of us are sorry to hear the D4B
contesting station station is going QRT.
It is understandable that you want better quality from CQ after you have
invested a good amount of $$$ and time building a quality contest station.
I have have vented my opinion about how the CQWW contests are run several times
on this reflector. The standard CQ response of " CQWW
is a contest run by a bunch of volunteers" can get old. While I will still
operate their contest I will not be going out of my way in the near future
to spend any $$ for a DX trip for CQWW, unless there are some changes in their
antiquated rules and badly administered awards program. I have chosen
to focus my DXpedition efforts on ARRL DX , which the ARRL has a great awards
program, compared the CQ's. I sure wish they would sponsor a worldwide
DX contest in addition to the ARRL DX....
The problem with CQ is they are really a publishing company that happens to
sponsor some contests. They have chosen to use volunteers to administer
their contests because that doesn't cost them anything. Their number one
priority is selling CQ Magazine and their other publications.There is nothing
wrong
with all this because after all they are a business trying to make a profit.
Plus, their contests have great activity so why should they change anything.
You are
really not going to see any changes unless activity in CQ sponsored contests
drop or the quality of their product gets so bad that it effects the sales of
their magazine.
I am not defending them because I think they have a bad product (CQWW Contest
not the magaizine) right now. Maybe bring in some paid help would help the
situation ...who knows ?? The good thing is their problems are fixable if they
decided to address them....
73, Jeff KU8E
_______________________________________________
CQ-Contest mailing list
CQ-Contest@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
|