[CQ-Contest] Line Scores

[asciibaron at comcast.net]

> Lets be clear - the ARRL *also* hates that they can't publish line scores in
> QST any more.  Those pages were lost because there aren't enough members and
> advertising dollars to support them, the reasons for which are well beyond
> the scope of this discussion. Despite the modern tendency to find a
> conspiracy behind every grassy knoll, this was not an anti-contester act.
> The ARRL has been and remains the world's largest sponsor of contests by a
> large factor.  They get an imperial ton of complaints about it, too...

so why are the entire Field Day scores published.  i can not reconcile the above comment with the fact that FD 2004 numbers, ALL numbers appeared in recent issue.  what was left out to add the scores?

unless...

the ARRL not wish to offend Joe Dipole with the realization that, yes, Field Day is a contest and since all contest scores are no longer published, his 2A station wasn't going to show up in the top ten.

-steve
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