[CQ-Contest] My short letter to NAQP

[Paul Cavanaugh]

I don't think you need to quit contesting because of this. I mean, look, you
develop some skills and build your shack up to accomplish a goal.  Who cares
what anybody thinks, you did it, you do it.


As far as CW Skimmer goes, or any other shortcut... <profanity alert> Fuck
'em.

There is always someone looking for the easy way. I just happen to think it
is pretty poor that people complain that amateur radio licenses  should not
require that you pass a code test because the licensing authorities say so
and" no one uses CW any more", but once having obtained a license, WITHOUT
PASSING A CODE TEST, want to enter a contest that is definitely  a code
contest. Hey people.... the reason they have these contests is not to make
you feel good about yourselves, but to show some kind of proficency in
whatever the contest is about or how good your station is. In other words,
if you can't be bother to learn the code, stay out of morse code contests.
There are plenty of contests that don't require morse code(every weekend)
that you can do.

And as to the flamers , whatever you argument is, it isn't good enough. Go
away. Learn the code, copy the code by ear and then enter the test. It is
not that hard. If you have an infirmary that really prevents you from doing
code, there are lots of other contests you can enter that do not require
morse code such as RTTY, PSK , SSB etc.

Contest sponsors: As far  as I know you can't  make a living running
contests. Who cares if you have 100 or 500,000 people entering a contest. CW
Skimmer, et al is nice technology... use it in random QSOs , rag chewing,
whatever. Don't have a CW test where the only test is how good the non-human
element is. And if you want to really develop the technology, figure
something out. I don't think contests are the place to develop technology.

Amateur Radio is not about you, but it is about improving you. 

73,
Paul W1HY

Flame On

-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Paul Gentry
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 4:58 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: [CQ-Contest] My short letter to NAQP

I just fired this off to the NAQP CW manager.   Stuff like this is pretty
much why I quit contesting.

Paul K9PG



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Paul Gentry 
To: WA7BNM Bruce 
Cc: K0AD Al 
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 3:56 PM


Bruce, 

Back in 1995 when Jay Leno interviewed Hugh Grant after he cheated on
Elizabeth Hurley with a hooker... the first question he asked Hugh was "What
the hell were you thinking?"

I can't help but ask myself the same question about the recent goings on
with you and NAQP CW.   Skimmer?   The NR5M score??  Not rescheduling
because of ARRL RTTY Round up???   And then going back to the KL9A thing a
few years ago?????

Bruce... this is exactly why I quit contesting. When people do things like
what you're doing to K5GA, what you did to KL9A, not rescheduling because of
an obvious foreseen disaster, and then this whole skimmer thing... it just
makes contesting not fun anymore.

NAQP CW used to be one of best contests out there.... and now it's pretty
much completely ruined.

There comes a point in time when common sense should prevail.  It obviously
has not been exercised at all here.  For the sake of this once great
contest, I hope you decide to exercise it soon.

73

K9PG
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