[CQ-Contest] When is a QSO not a QSO?

[Shelby Summerville]

Kelly Taylor wrote: "There are much more important issues we could discuss.

Personally, I, along with the great majority, I believe 97% was the figure I 
was quoted,  of participants don't really give a flip about "how, where, 
whom" is involved in their contact! Although I will admit, if the "whom" is 
someone I know, personally, and I'm of the impression that he is operating 
from some DX entity, and I ask "how's the weather there", and he replies: 
"I'm not really there, I'm operating remotely from my living room, using my 
laptop", something will be missing from that contact! When the ability to 
have fun...I have not made a single contact, contest or otherwise, during 
the month of March...is taken away, the majority of that aforementioned 
percentage will, as I have, find others things to do, on contest weekends. 
Contrary to popular opinions, "most lives do not revolve around the contest 
world"!
I'm a firm believer in "we all try and make time for things that are 
considered important"? Recently, my participation in contests is becoming 
less important...and I sincerely hope: "that too shall pass"

C'Ya, Shelby - K4WW