I expressed the following opinion last fall on this reflector but received
no follow-up comments. At the risk of being repetitive, here it is again:
ARRL does not "own" the January, June, and September VHF contests. With
the elimination of score publishing in QST, it appears all they provide is
a staff to process logs and a website where those results are eventually
made available. With the proliferation of electronic submissions, even
this part of the operation is becoming more automated. If ARRL elects not
to publish scores in their widely distributed magazine, it's not clear
what they have to offer the VHF contester that isn't readily available in
other venues.
I propose that CQ-VHF should "inherit" these contests. The transition
would be seamless --- same days, same operating times, same rules. The
only difference is that logs are sent to CQ-VHF where they get published.
Mike WB2FKO
> My sentiments, exactly. I have tried to think about what reasons I might
> have had, if I were an ARRL Director, to become convinced that contest
> line scores were less worthy of QST space than several pages of, say,
> color photos of things like random road signs that happen to have "Ham"
> or the like in a double-meaning context. I find plenty in QST that is,
> frankly, not very interesting to me; and I miss having the full contest
> reports, even for the events I don't enter. I've been reading them for
> 40+ years, and it's still fascinating to see what everyone else has done.
>
> -- 73, Joe, K1JT
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