[CQ-Contest] PARDON ME ?????

[Kenneth E. Harker]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 03:05:38AM +0000, Todd Bendtsen wrote:

> "Have you ever worked a NWT, YT, and NU all in the same ARRL contest??"
> 
> Have you ever lived in any one of those places in contest season??? I dare 
> say 90% of the people on this list don't realize that the main goal from mid 
> October till the end of March is merely to survive the winter. Satisfying 
> the hoards in a contest is certainly a secondary consideration. VY1JA is to 
> be heartily commended for his efforts.

Not to mention that the combined population of those regions is 
roughly comparable to the population of the town of Victoria, Texas.  
There's just not a lot of people up there in the first place.

-- 
Kenneth E. Harker WM5R
kenharker at kenharker.com
http://www.kenharker.com/