[CQ-Contest] 10 Meter Contest CFZ ended

[Fred Laun K3ZO]

ARRL Vice President N4MM announced at the joint PVRC/NCDXA Meeting August
12 that the Membership Services Committee (MSC) of the ARRL Board of
Directors moved to end the Contest Free Zone (CFZ) of the 10 Meter Contest
at their latest meeting.  

It gives me great pleasure to know that henceforth Argentina's Novices, who
are restricted to operating phone precisely in the 28300-28350 KHz segment
which constituted the former CFZ, can now participate in the ARRL 10 Meter
Contest without being in violation of the contest rules.

My thanks go to John, N4MM, for pushing this through. 

73, Fred, K3ZO  


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>From James Funk" <jfunk at adams.net  Tue Aug 15 14:56:07 2000
From: James Funk" <jfunk at adams.net (James Funk)
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 08:56:07 -0500
Subject: [CQ-Contest] more contest input
Message-ID: <002d01c006c0$903d5540$f61c8ad8 at funk>


I forwarded the recent post from K7FR (his response to KR6X) to our local
general interest club members.  I believe Gary's main idea was that it is
easy to turn away potential contesters when they encounter rudeness in
battle.  This was one response I got from N9KUT which I thought was worth
sharing:

> > I personally like contests.  I probably will not win one with my
100watts  into my tribander mounted at 7m with no rotor.  I enjoy search and
pounce  for a couple of hours and may get some help from my wife, daughter,
son, or one of the cats.
> > There are plenty of rude people on the air.  They also drive cars, shop
in  the malls and food stores.  I am not planning to stop shopping, or
driving,  and I'm sure you can tell by looking at me that I like to eat. So
I don't  think I will stop using the radio either.  In fact, if we want to
do something to help the situation, we should probably use the radio more
just  so we can set a good example for others to follow.  If we just sit
back  and complain, we might be part of the problem.
> >
> > Bob

My thinking:  We are rightly concerned about one bad experience turning hams
away from contesting.  Let's counteract that by trying to provide that one
good experience that might hook them despite some bad ones.

73, Jim N9JF
>


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