This truly amazes me, that after every VHF contest, people gripe about
activities and rules.What this boil's down to is this. We spend tens of
thousands of dollars to operate VHF contests, and receive nothing in return.You
know what your getting into before the contest starts, so just deal with
it. For many years the ARRL held hams back from using loggers, and they finally
changes the rules. I'm not sure for better or worse.I was on 144 mhz giving out
contacts on Sunday evening. I had made about 40 contacts by 10pm. I called CQ
about 20 times on both CW and SSB, turning my 4 yagis in every direction
without one response. BTW running 1500 watts. My freq was 144.216. Was everyone
looking at the ON4KST logger and not tuning their radio ? I did not post.You
can't stop stations from operating EME in certain areas of the country. Without
those contacts, they have no way to compete nor take advantage of the system
they created to generate those special contacts.You are playing for a piece of
paper, that will never be seen by anyoneEnjoy the hobby gents, it's far later
than you think.As far as I'm concerned, there are far to many certificates
given out in far to many categories. I received a 16th place certificate from
CQ a few months ago from a DX contest. I contacted them and told them it was
worthless. 73'sHerb K2LNS
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