[CQ-Contest] Please Copy - Not Worth the Bother

[TOMK5RC at aol.com]

C'mon guys. The "please copy" issue is a metaphor for the learning curve we 
all have gone through. I can't believe you are having a literal debate over 
it. 

It is prevalent in FD because we are doing what Elmer's should do, teach our 
operating skills and values to the newcomers.  Sometimes it is most effective 
by direct instruction. Sometimes by demonstration and example. Yes, sometimes 
through humor and trial by fire.

I wasn't able to go to FD last weekend, but I got on and made a few hundred 
QSO's, taking the time to politely correct the uneducated, make suggestions 
of technique to the unskilled and having the patience to work someone calling 
endlessly or out of turn. That's why it is not a contest, but an operating 
event.

Get a grip. This is supposed to be fun.

Tom, K5RC


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