In a message dated 12/4/2004 6:39:39 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Cqtestk4xs@aol.com writes:
>>I was also informed again that contesters are not a
signicant focus for the ARRL and that the focus of the boys in Newington is
the
guys who are the no-code techs, and the boys who frequent two meters. They
are
the majority of the ham population. The DXers and contesters are a small
minority of the entire ham population<<
Pardon me, but this is stupidest reasoning by ARRL.
You look at the purchasing power and not the number of handhelds.
One IC7800 = 50 handhelds/shacks on the belt
One contester = 6 x IC7800 (plus extra junk) = 300 SOTB (plus extra rubber
duck)
No brainer, except by ARRL.
I just made my last QSO in ARRL 160 test
Looking forward to all CQ contests, I might even go RTTY and VHF.
73 and oh well!!!
Yuri, K3BU.us
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