Any comments?
Yes, I do have a comment about QST reporting of the scores. QST has reduced
their coverage of the 160 meter contest scores to show only the top ten in each
catagory and then in their "Regional Scores" section only the top five in each
catagory for each REGION. Since the exchange in the 160 test is RST and
SECTION, one might expect that score listings would show how we fared relative
to others in our SECTION, rather than REGION. Max KH6ZM and I don't even have
our scores printed in QST, even though we came in first and second in our
SECTION. To get our scores printed we would have to be in the top five of the
whole West Coast REGION, not just the Southwest DIVISION or the Pacific
SECTION. We are 2500 miles, or more, away from all the other sections in the
Southwest Division.
If you're an ARRL member you can download the PDF version of the QST coverage.
What you get in the download includes what was in print in QST as well as the
rest of the scores (the last six pages) that QST just cannot find space for
these days.
I enjoyed OPERATING in the contest in 2004 and this year too. Submitting a log
is not the most enjoyable part of the process, and if my score isn't going to
be printed why put in the effort?
DE N6KB
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