Here is the reply I received to my (less than polite) email to the
Hamvention Chairman. My impression is that this is the way they intend to do
it from here on out. Even with double the number of buses, I can't think of
a much more inconvenient way to host forums that are each a half day long.
Maybe it will work but I'd hate to have to bet much on it.
Mike / W8DN
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Miller <chair@erinet.com>
To: Mike Rhodes <weightdn@bright.net>
Subject: Re: DX & Contesting Forums Outrage
>Mike:
>It is true, the DX and Contest forums will be at Meadowdale High School.
>It is not possible to use the previous room arrangement for 1998. It takes
>considerable changes in the wiring in the ceiling to set up the room. It
>is not certain we can still obtain the necessary permits to do the work.
>The heavy duty theater drapes used to form the room are in need of cleaning
>and repair. We need further information as to if and where this can be
>done and what cost. Furthermore, the room at the high school is an
>auditorium which provides a much better venue to serve a large group with
>audio/visual services. We have doubled the buses for the mile and half
>trip to Meadowdale high school and have provided food service at that
>location. These changes were not made in haste or with the intent to
>inconvenience any group but rather to provide better facilities to you the
>attendees. We hope you will try to look at the changes from our angle and
>give it a fair chance to work.
>
>73,
>
>Dick and Jim
>
>At 11:36 PM 4/9/1998 -0400, you wrote:
>>Gentlemen,
>> I am trying very hard to come up with the logic of your organization
>>having moved the DX and Contesting forums off site this year. So far I am
>>failing miserably!
>> I truly cannot understand why anyone would move what are probably the
two
>>most attended and certainly the two longest forums off site. This makes it
>>virtually impossible for one to stop in for a presentation of interest,
>>leave and stroll around the hamvention, returning for another presentation
>>of interest. I know this is my preferred method of attendance and surely
>>that of many others. With a bus ride as the only reasonable (such as it
is)
>>method of reaching Meadowdale High School, it would appear that your
>>intentions are to clear out the few remaining Radio Amateurs who still
have
>>and use HF privliges lest we corrupt the minds of the shack-on-the-belt
>>crowd!!
>> I believe your actions are very poorly thought out and will certainly
not
>>be well received by a great number of hamvention attendees. I urge you to
>>reconsider in the few weeks that remain between now and hamvention
weekend.
>> AND, in the same breath you increase the price of admission by over 15%
!!
>>Thank you very much!!
>>
>>Mike Rhodes / W8DN
>>
>>
>>
>
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