Yes, these are both great pieces. The first one puts ham radio into
a main stream magazine - rarely do you see more than a sentence or
two in national media outside the hobby mags. The ICOM was produced
really nicely and now I know why I get so much QRM from K3LR!! Nice
antenna farm. This is one I can even show at work and people will be
interested. The hook won't necessarily be the contesting or radios,
but Tim's coffee choice is made by my company. Also shows a bit of
our candy products too. I will have to show this one around work and
send it on to the brands manager. I always look for ways to
promote/explain amateur radio to others and this will be another good
way to start the conversation.
Thanks for the links.
73 Gregg
KI3G
At 12:40 PM 6/28/2007, you wrote:
>Providing yet another chapter in the "things about Contesting we'd
>like to see more of in QST, but don't"...
>
>There are two great pieces in recent news about well-known
>contesters I'd like to alert folks to.
>
>One is about Joe Rudi, NK7U, in Sports Illustrated. You can see it at
>
>http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/06/25/watn.rudi/
>
>as well as at your local news stand.
>
>Icom also has a great multmedia segment which features, among other
>things, a visit to K3LR. Check it out at:
>
>http://icomamerica.com/amateur/video/Icom_Radio_News_V5.asp
>
>While these pieces may highlight what we all consider to be "big gun
>stations", it's undoubtedly easier for these forms of media to cover
>stories such as these which are more readable to a general audience.
>Still, they are both excellent examples of not only great coverage
>of contesting, but also of those sorts of things we ought to see
>more of, but do not. Where did all the imagination go?
>
>With malice towards none,
>
>73,
>
>Warren, NF1J/6
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