[CQ-Contest] How did these guys get to be so good?
Jerry Keller
dxdog at rcn.com
Sat Aug 11 08:30:44 EDT 2001
Not to criticize Kelly or anyone else, but just my 2 cents......
Practice and hard work are certainly character-building and to be commended.
But in contesting the choices seem pretty much the same as in every field of
expertise: either the current leaders teach, train and mentor their
replacements, or the new guys must re-invent the wheel. The attitude "hey,
we had to learn the hard way, why shouldn't they?", while human nature to
some extent, must be overcome if contesting.... or indeed any type of
endeavor... is to flourish and grow.
How would it be if, for example, there were no medical schools and every
doctor had to start from scratch and "do it just like everybody else.....
practice, practice, practice and hard work"?
In particular, that attitude must adversely affects clubs where total group
score matters. The leading ops of the best clubs surely must recognize the
need to attract, retain, and bring along as quickly as possible their own
replacements. Failure to do so may very well doom any group to a slow death
by attrition.
Or at least it seems so to me.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kelly Taylor" <ve4xt at mb.sympatico.ca>
To: <CQ-Contest at contesting.com>; "Leigh S. Jones" <kr6x at kr6x.com>
Cc: <dann6mj at home.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 11:09 PM
Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] How did these guys get to be so good?
>
> I guess a new operator joining the ranks these days will do it just like
everybody who's been mentioned as the top ops: lots and lots of practice,
practice and hard work.
>
> Just like anything in life: 'cept inheritance.
>
> 73, kelly
> ve4xt
>
> ----------
> From: Jim Reisert AD1C[SMTP:jjreisert at alum.mit.edu]
> Sent: 9-Aug-01 20:54
> To: CQ-Contest at contesting.com; Leigh S. Jones
> Cc: dann6mj at home.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] How did these guys get to be so good?
>
>
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 21:24:58 -0700, Leigh S. Jones wrote:
>
> >Truthfully, I think one of the more intriguing questions is how will a
> >new operator joining the amateur ranks these days ever get as good as
> >these guys.
>
> Let's ask N6MJ. He seems to be well on the way.
>
> 73 - Jim AD1C
>
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