Uh,
Is this the VHF Contesting reflector? Sounds more like "THE ARRL SUCKS, AND
HERE'S WHY" list.
NOBODY, I mean NOBODY was happy that scores were pulled out of the mag. It
WAS the wrong move, in our collective opinion. As for content, it ain't no
Ham Radio magazine. Yeah - we all agree about that.
BUT - part of the problem we're bitching about starts right here. We're
helping cause it. Newbies that read our comments about how much the ARRL
sucks, how FM-biased they are, how downright "RANK NOVICE' they are...
that's incentive to play in our sandbox HOW?
Lighten up. Lots of folks dislike the ARRL, for lots of reasons. Taking a
rational discussion about HOW to begin analyzing and fixing VHF+ contests /
activity - and turning it into a platform to BASH the league is
inappropriate. That's not relavant to VHF+ contesting. Let's get back to
topic.
Mark, K2AXX
ABCD9EFGHIJP
FN12cs
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Geiger [mailto:johngeig@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 3:00 PM
> To: W6OAL@aol.com; timm@cccomm.net
> Cc: rparker@dccnet.com; n9dg@yahoo.com; vhfcontesting@contesting.com;
> vhf@w6yx.stanford.edu; w7pw@bmg50.com
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Re: ARRL VHF Contest
>
>
> I disagree about the ARRL only caring about HF. The
> League loves 2 meter FM, packet, APRS, and echolink
> more than anything else. If we could find a way to
> incorportate echolink into the VHF contest, the league
> would be all behind it. Or maybe we should have every
> VHF contest involve a contact between the space
> station and a few elementary schools. Or maybe we
> should all go roving in Semis that have QST or HAM
> written on the back. These are the things that seem
> to get attention in QST. Along a related line, there
> was actually an intelligent question this month in the
> "Doctor is in"column. THe one about converting DBm to
> watts. Of course they had to also find a way to
> incorporate plans for a 2 meter FM ground plane in to
> a question that didn't even call for one.
>
> 73s John NE0P
> --- W6OAL@aol.com wrote:
> > Timm,
> >
> > The first word of your post "Get" as in get
> > the League, contaminated
> > your entire post. You are not going to get the
> > League to do any thing unless
> > it is HF related and then the magnificent few at HQ
> > have to think of it first
> > or it's not a good idea.
> >
> > The only way we are going to get anything
> > done is for us operators
> > above 30 MHz are going to have to break with the
> > League and establish our own
> > contests, rules and award system. Smell the roses,
> > the ARRL is a bunch of
> > dying HF weeds.
> >
> > CU 73, Dave...(DM79)
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