[CQ-Contest] Easy way to correct answer

4X4KF 4x4kf at iarc.org
Sun Nov 12 00:23:16 EST 2006


Ladies & Gents,
I advice you to read the piece from Arnie N6HC below again
and again, until you're sure you understand it. Sadly it is the
holy f......g truth.
Michael 4X4KF

N6HC at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 11/11/06 7:35:55 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
>w5ov at w5ov.com writes:
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>Use some  common sense, and stop imagining what might be intended or that
>other  things that are not spelled out are penalties.
>I have been lurking on this reflector for many years and have followed many  
>of the threads that pop up regarding unfair play in contesting.
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>We amateur radio operators are a representative cross section of society as  
>a whole.  Society has put aside common sense with the mantra that our  
>"rights" need to be preserved at all cost, even at the sacrifice of common  sense.  
>We can thank lawyers for fostering this movement in their avarice  and greed to 
>do everything in, and to, society that society does not  specifically 
>prohibit.  As a society we selectively enforce our laws  rather than require everyone 
>to live by the letter of the law.  So....if  the ARRL does not specifically 
>require an accurate check and they refuse to  enforce that requirement, then 
>there will be some individuals in our  society of radio operators who will try 
>to find a way to twist this rule to  what they perceive as a shift in the 
>balance in their  favor. If it is not the check, it is the surreptitious use of the 
> packet cluster or telenet, or claiming low power when the run a KW, or the  
>"rubber log", ad nauseum. SO PLEASE LET'S END THESE THREADS AS IT REQUIRES  A 
>CULTURAL SHIFT THAT WE WILL PROBABLY NOT SEE IN OUR LIFETIME.  Let us  
>remember what is most important to the majority of us...to get on the air and  to 
>have fun.  If there are those among us who wish to pervert the  rules, let them 
>do it. Their victory is hollow.
>Respectfully,
>Arnie N6HC (Flame suit on)
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