[CQ-Contest] Open Letter to VE Contesters

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

This is kinda like having a separate track to race on in the Daytona 
500.  The problem with it is that the ARRL has combined VE and USA into 
the same category when their regulatory rules are different.

I would imagine that VE's would have cried out long ago if in fact the 
CW power limit was say 200 watts while the USA was 1500 or if the VE sub 
bands for cw started at .075.

Oddly the USA seems to get the short end of the stick in the frequency 
wars because we have more hams.

It is an advantage and most have admitted to it.  When at V47M we 
listened on our Xmit frequency all the time on 40m and worked tons of 
VE's who have very little competition.

It is unfair to the person being harmed not to the one getting the 
advantage and I have yet to hear one VE say that it is not an advantage 
so should that be the reason enough that something should be done?

If VE competed solely against VE then it would not be an issue but that 
is not the case.

W0MU

On 2/23/2016 9:04 PM, Ken Widelitz wrote:
> Hi Ed,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> And its mano a mano, not mono - mono.
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> 73, Ken, K6LA / VY2TT
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