Wonderful points........and, maybe exposes another question why contest
activity may be dropping off !!
REALLY good ARRL Directors and Section Managers SHOULD look into QST
activity results to see who is doing what within their areas to expose it
and promote it in the local section newsletters. This is how hams new to the
hobby or new to contesting would know who to contact locally to get involved
or ask questions !!
You would think that knowing who within your district was pushing the ham
radio technology envelopes with VHF-UHF-Micro-EME-SAT should be of paramount
importance to localized ARRL officials so they could brag about it, promote
it, expose it, teach it, or whatever it takes to link up mildly interested
hams with the experts so the "interest virus" becomes contagious.
The Indiana section manager actually visited the site of Multi-op W9ICE in
June 2001, took pictures, and did a write up for the section
newsletter.....since then we have had a constant stream of visitors, new
hams, non-hams that got licenses, and newly born contesters grow out of
this.
And, we really have a dynamo of a Section manager now here in Georgia, doing
her share to name callsigns, promote events and accomplishments with her
lengthy monthly E-mail newsletters.
Ron
-WB8ERB-
-----Original Message-----
From: WBR WF4R [mailto:wbr@verizon.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 1:09 PM
To: Joseph H. Taylor
Cc: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Contest results in QST
I agree 100%
Thanks for saying it Joe.
73,
Bill
WF4R
"Joseph H. Taylor" wrote:
>
> > 3. Ok, I don't want to make this into the next code/no-code
> > debate, but I really wish QST would re-think the removal of
> > line scores. It sends the wrong message.
>
> 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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