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Subject: [VHFcontesting] flying discs and roving
From: frank bechdoldt <k3uhf@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:21:46 -0800
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On of the statistically high percentage of analytical thinkers we have on this 
reflector pointed out something to me. It has been pointed out to me that the 
term Frisbee is copyrighted by Whamo and I should not use it without express 
written consent of the Whamo brothers, Emil and Isaac Whamo. Sorry guys.   I am 
now forced to use the term flying disc, sport disc, I am tempted to refer to a 
pie tins, but I hear Sara Lee and Little Debbie can be quite the turds at times.
 
            All the absurbity that aside, I have no bone to pick with the VUAC, 
they have sent in a fix and time will tell what the results will be.  I hope 
the ARRL has the intestinal fortitude to say why they changed the rules again 
so it is clear as to why they are doing it.  We all know they wouldn’t change 
things if there was not a need to do so.  
 
Yes I am saying that they are not forward thinking in Connecticut.  This is on 
several issues beyond our reflector.  I would like to think it is on lack of 
funding. I think when the ARRL asked the VUAC to work on roving rules some 
more, they understood that the VUAC is troubleshooting and the first time may 
not pan out.
 
            I took the gloves off when it was obvious the VUAC sent on their 
recommendation. I figured that ended the debate for now. But somehow it kept 
going until my fingers could not resist any more.  My blood pressure is not 
high,  I am trying to let the people who do not rove understand that all parts 
of the contest should be clean.
Paul is right that the ARRL  needs to be very clear and stop the mixed signals. 
 
 
            I perhaps romanticize roving.  It is a mix of the radio hobby and 
the automobile.  Out west it gives you magnificent views if you go to a 
mountain top.  In populated areas it gives you strange looks, but it also 
attracts attention from people who look beyond why the funny vehicle and ask 
why and what are you doing.  In the internet age, which I believe has taken a 
toll on “random contacts” in radio (HF and VHF) and offers a seemingly easier 
way to reach other cultures.  I think this activity could expand greatly if 
fostered in such a way that makes sense and offers some realistic competiveness 
to new people.  
 
            I think the ARRL needs to market radio and radio sports as a 
family/ normal activity choice for the American family. They have went halfway 
there already by lowering the standards for those to get the basic license.    
They need to find a way to finish their licensing stimulus package.  There used 
to be a million of us. Now we float at 600k with the only hope of keeping a 
million of us is to make the license a 20 year license. 
 
            Ok my rant went way off the flying disc…. But just think if the 
focus on BPL was used to get more hams then there would be more of a grass root 
pushback on BPL and CC&Rs.  Lets face it, we need more gentiles in the Army to 
drive off the barbarians.   
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