Have you ever been working a contest an run into somebody demanding that you
to crawl back under your rock? I have heard it. So have you...
There is a huge contingent of hams, our director's constituents too, that
hate contesters. They wouldn't stop on a road side for an opportunity to p_
e in your face if they saw you burning. They hate you. And I mean hate.
Why? The perception of bandwidth wasting I suspect. Possibly
inconvenience. Who knows. The point is they are vocal and perhaps the ARRL
is listening to that group at the same time they listen to this group --
(net = zero.)
The question is, how much of this is really economics and how much of it is
political? It would be impossible, politically speaking, to publicly
support the contest haters. We're too big a group. Likewise, it must be
coming increasingly difficult to support contesters -- because the contest
haters are growing in number. What better solution than to blame the
economics of the few pages in QST?
Any comments?
Ford-N0FP
ford@cmgate.com
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