[CQ-Contest] Open Letter to VE Contesters

[Ed Sawyer]

Ken, Thanks for your comments.  And certainly sorry to hear about your
hearing loss.  I think we all fear that could start happening to any of us
some day.

 

I agree with you on location, location, location.  While here in Northern
Vermont, I benefit from general East Coast US, there is no doubt, I am the
whipping boy by the coastal Maine crew and the southern New England crew
(especially when the conditions were like last weekend).  That all being
said, I greatly enjoy this location for DX contests.

 

There is another element which you have confirmed as advantage - regulation,
regulation, regulation.  While no one can take away your location advantage,
the regulation advantage is at the whim of the FCC.  Sounds like its time to
look into that aspect.  After all - whats fair is fair.

 

Good luck this weekend.  Think of the boys fighting it out up 10khz.

 

Ed  N1UR

 

From: Ken Widelitz [mailto:widelitz at gte.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2016 11:05 PM
To: sawyered at earthlink.net; cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] Open Letter to VE Contesters

 

Hi Ed,

 

No, I will not agree to only operate in the U. S. phone band. The ability to
operate outside the U. S. phone band is one reason I chose  PEI for my
station. It is not an unfair advantage. It is an advantage. The old adage is
location, location, location. If you don't like your location, you can do
something about it. 

 

How about putting a plug in your left ear because you have an unsurmountable
advantage since over me since I lost 60% of my hearing in my left ear about
4 years ago with a sharp decline starting at 800 hz. There is nothing I can
do about that. You don't need to put the plug in for CW.

 

And its mano a mano, not mono - mono.

 

73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT