A couple of things:
1) I didn't join this reflector because I wanted to spend infinite
amounts of time deleting discussion of percieved decline in
activity. I joined because I was interested in learning technical
information that would help me to participate in the process of
increasing activity. It's especially tiring when people bring up
things like distance scoring that were discussed several months
ago; I believe the archives are on the web, and it would be worth
checking them to see if you really have something new to say before
bringing up something that's already been discussed to death. If
I'm going to spend time in front of a computer thinking about VHF
contesting, my time would be much better spent playing with antenna
modeling.
Also, y'all might want to think about getting on the air and making
some noise, rather than getting on the Internet and making some
noise. (My QTH precludes useful weak signal VHF operating, which
is one of the reasons I don't operate between contests. Do all of
y'all have the same excuse as me, though?)
2) I sent the ARRL a bunch of detailed comments like six months ago,
that supposedly the ad-hoc committee was going to look at. I
haven't seen any results from this committee. It's not yet clear
whether that means we should all just have more patience waiting
for the committee to do what it's going to do, or if this means the
League isn't really paying attention to what people have to say to
them.
I'm also sort of curious who's on the committee, and what
experience they have with VHF contesting. The apparently closed
process that we're not hearing anything about fails to increase my
level of respect for the League.
Of course, it may also be that there's been a lack of anyone
actually volunteering to be on the committee. I don't know any
details of the situation with this particular ad-hoc committee,
other than that it seems to exist but seems to not do much of
anything (and I think nobody has posted here to say that they're on
the committee, which seems kind of odd); but I'm aware of a case in
the city of Somerville, MA where I live where a lot of us managed
to send email to each other and to one of the alderman about a
particular parking regulation that irked us, but most of us didn't
bother to show up for the hearing when it was scheduled (or submit
testimony), and this turns out to not be a very effective political
process.
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