Hi Mike, and others
No, the ARRL doesn't own the contest, but they do
sponsor it, make the rules, and award certificates,
along with a write up of the contest results in QST.
True, we could all send our logs to CQ also, and have
2 contest robots to deal with instead of one, but it
would still be an ARRL contest with the line scores
appearing in QST. I guess CQ could sponser their own
VHF contest to run concurrently with the ARRL
contests, but that would probably get confusing fairly
quickly. SOme would send logs to CQ but not ARRL, but
most would probably send logs to ARRL but not CQ.
73s John NE0P
--- Mike Hasselbeck <mph@swcp.com> wrote:
> I expressed the following opinion last fall on this
> reflector but received
> no follow-up comments. At the risk of being
> repetitive, here it is again:
>
> ARRL does not "own" the January, June, and September
> VHF contests. With
> the elimination of score publishing in QST, it
> appears all they provide is
> a staff to process logs and a website where those
> results are eventually
> made available. With the proliferation of
> electronic submissions, even
> this part of the operation is becoming more
> automated. If ARRL elects not
> to publish scores in their widely distributed
> magazine, it's not clear
> what they have to offer the VHF contester that isn't
> readily available in
> other venues.
>
> I propose that CQ-VHF should "inherit" these
> contests. The transition
> would be seamless --- same days, same operating
> times, same rules. The
> only difference is that logs are sent to CQ-VHF
> where they get published.
>
> Mike WB2FKO
>
>
>
> > 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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