I hate to be a kurmudgeon, Jim, but if the League has to chose
between spending money on Washington lobbyist or printing
our scores in QST versus the web, I would rather have them
concentrate on what we really need them for - defending our
frequencies from competing interests in front of FCC, Congress,
and ITU. Pretty hard to contest if you don't have any bands
to operate on.
Heck I usually have already studied the contest results on the
members only website a month before the hardcopy arrives
in the mail anyway. The main thing is that ARRL continues to
support the contest desk (N1ND, et al) with the funding to do
log checking and publish the results and that the electronic
results are available to members at no additional charge (e.g.
you don't have to be an NCJ subscriber). I think they may
already do this, but results could be made available to
non-members after one or two months so as not to
discourage non-members who normally pick up the results at
the newstand from participating.
If ARRL can save some bucks by using a cheaper medium (e.g.
world wide web) to deliver the results, then that just more money
that they can take to Washington to compete with telecom giants
and the Homeowners Association of America, etc. If the money
saved is funnelled back into the contest desk, Dan can spend more
time doing detailed breakdown analysis off results instead of buying
stamps and paper. I think the painfully short writeups we have now
are driven by the limited page space allocated in QST. The web
doesn't really have this limitation. This would allow us to get back
to the days of long writeups with lots of pictures.
Mike, W4EF (aka Elmer Fudd)...............................
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim White, K4OJ" <k4oj@tampabay.rr.com>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Cc: <fcg@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 12:56 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Quick Poll
>
> TO THE READERSHIP OF CQ-CONTEST...A REQUEST FROM A MEMBER OF THE LEAGUE
FOR
> OVER 30 YEARS....
>
> Here is an excerpt from K1RO's post to AB0MV copied to the CQ-Contest
> reflector...
>
> "We conduct comprehensive, professional QST reader surveys approximately
> every three years, using Readex, Inc., a firm that specializes in magazine
> readership research. The surveys are conducted using industry standard
> techniques and mailed to a random sample of ARRL members. We have a high
> degree of confidence in the results."
>
>
>
> MY REQUEST:
>
> IMPORTANT:
>
> ONLY IF YOU HAVE BEEN APPROACHED
>
> (NO I HAVE NEVER BEEN POLLED OR EVEN HEARD OF READEX, ETC RESPONSES PLEASE
> PLEASE PLEASE)
>
> Please respond to K1RO at the ARRL if you have ever been polled by Readex,
> Inc.
>
> His e-mail is
>
> mwilson@arrl.org
>
> AND
>
> ONLY IF YOU HAVE BEEN POLLED, PLEASE CC THE CQ-CONTEST REFLECTOR....I have
> not and wonder how many active contesters have.
>
> ...Mark let us know how much mail you get from the "burden"-some
contesting
> community, won't you?
>
>
> Jim White, K4OJ
> ARRL LM and former ARRL employee who had to deal with those burdensome
> contesters in the seventies...
>
>
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>From W3WW" <w3ww@adelphia.net Fri Jan 11 03:50:54 2002
From: W3WW" <w3ww@adelphia.net (W3WW)
Subject: [CQ-Contest] No Scores in QST ?
Message-ID: <01e901c19a53$2bc55400$271a3018@stu.adelphia.net>
For the last 43 years the first place I flip in QST is the Section News,
then the Contest Corral. I am not an avid contester, nor an avid DXer, but I
enjoy checking out who's who in this arena and hopefully someday life will
slow down and I will join the fun. In the past, I looked through the DX
Honor Roll, imagining that someday my listing will be among the ones
printed. Recently, I have watched fledgling contesters work their way up
from the bottom of the list.
Somehow I don't feel alone.
Don W3WW
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