Blake,
Very well put!!! Too many of these guys forget that if it isn't good for
the little guy, the casual contester, the Joe Tribanders, the passersby,
then it
can't possibly be good for contesting! Those guys are where all the points
come from. If we were only working the guys in the scoring boxes, it would
be a VERY short contest.
73,
Tom K5IID
At 02:30 PM 4/6/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Have been reading the WPX rule ideas for quite some time now. Whether or
>not these ideas would help iron out the east-west inequalities, I don't
>know. I am relatively new to contesting, but most of these ideas seem to
>me like making the 100 yard dash into a 90 yard dash for the guy with
>short legs? He's still going to have short legs, and he (or the guy he's
>running against for that matter) can't do anything about it. And
>remember also that if the rules are changed, we might be able to fix the
>east west thing, but how would it affect the other amateurs around the
>world?? Should we change the rules to suit "US", so "WE" can get higher
>scores? If things were equal for everyone, we couldn't call it a CONTEST
>anymore could we?? Personally, I think the longer the contest, the
>better, just because I enjoy sitting in front of the radio and
>CONTESTING!!!
> I hope remembered to replace the batteries in my smoke detector.....
>
>Blake, KU4HZ
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