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To: felasstic@yahoo.com, vhfcontesting@contesting.com
Subject: [VHFcontesting] VUAC & roving resurected reply
From: "frank bechdoldt" <k3uhf@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:44:58 -0700
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I was gone a week or so. No activity in DN38!

To further contest the contestability of the word "contest" in reference to the ARRL terms of "QSO parties" and "Sweepstakes".

If one goes to the ARRL homepage , clicks on operating activities and then contests one will see a link to the VUAC, which is linked in nature to the ARRL contest comittee, which runs all the contests, even if we call them sweepstakes.

That being said, it would truely be a sweepstake if all our log entries goes into to the barrell and a winner is drawn at random and presented an award via a suprise visit from Ed McMamann and Dick Clark, two of the oldest hams who do not hold a licence.

Furthermore, the QSO parties would be more of a party if you drank a beer every time you worked a new grid. Of course rovers would not be allowed to drink because they are obviosly allready intoxicated with something else to go out and be a rover.

Im other contests listed under the contest calender (not special event calender) I have yet to figure out how to round up RTTY or Schools. Ed Mcmann has never visited anyone after a CW sweepstaks, I think listening to Johnny Carson and drinking all that scotch all those years made him tone death and when they try to enter me into the phone sweepstakes I just hang up after I tell them I'm on the no-call list for solicitations.

The only contest I would contest as a contest under the ARRL contest calender would be what I would consider the contestable idea of Field Day a "Non contest". However that idea would be hotley contested because Ironicly enough; the biggest ham turn out for a contest is in fact something that in principle started out as a "non contest" idea. It was more as a way to test our selves with our comunication skills nationally and world wide as well as demostrate our services to others in the world.

Again isnt it ironic from a contester's point of view of the amount of effort and competive spirit by otherwise placid fm repeater hams that goes into a contest that is much more complicated in rules than any of our vhf contests and has no awards to boot! When I was a kid we were excited to get the school club in QST magazine! Now theres 10,000 rules!

It seems its field day thats truely for fun/ education/ practice and its why I contest its lable as a contest under the contest calender. Its a yearly special event. There should be a bit of field day fun in every contest!

Contest that!

K3uhf

This e-mail is an attempt at humor and does not not reflect the views or inteligence of the reflector, Arrl members, VUAC or even the Author himself.





From: Fred Lass <felasstic@yahoo.com>
To: frank bechdoldt <k3uhf@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] VUAC & roving
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 14:17:00 -0700 (PDT)

You can be sure that the VUAC is following this public discussion over the best implementation of rover rules.

My goal on the VUAC is to make the QSO parties a fun event, not necessarily a level playing field. The geography and activity differences in the US precludes such. As Frank mentions, "contest" (with an accent on the second syllable), as used in this case is exactly the attempt to make rules as reasonable as possible.

Frank's e-mail uses the vernacular name "contest" for the VHF QSO parties to indicate irony. I contest that. The term "contest" is not actually included in the title of the event. How ironic is that? :-)

73, Fred K2TR Hudson Division VUAC Representative


frank bechdoldt <k3uhf@hotmail.com> wrote: Well it looks like the VUAC is still thinking. I heard that they called for
roving revision suggestions this year.


The key to contesting might be found in the american heritage dictionary:

A competition, especially one in which entrants perform separately and are rated by judges.

Which brings us to the next definition in the little book for contest:

To call into question and take an active stand against; dispute or
challenge.

How Ironic......


73s Frank


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