[CQ-Contest] Open Letter to VE Contesters

[W0MU Mike Fatchett]

Says the guy that is getting the benefit.....

You might be slightly biased.  It is similar to asking someone on Gov't 
assistance if it would be ok to terminate their assistance.  I am sure 
those getting the assistance would not want to give them up.

I find it rather insulting that now to have a valid opinion in contest 
that you now must make a certain number of contacts in said contest.  
Apparently, 30 plus years of contesting and contesting from the 
Caribbean mean nothing to one or some.  Laughable.

W0MU

On 2/24/2016 12:37 PM, ve4xt at mymts.net wrote:
> This is all so much ado about nothing!
>
> Look at last year's results. In SAH, VY2TT is nearly 1,000 QSOs and 57 countries behind K4XS and 200 QSOs and 54 countries behind K3WW.
>
> VY2ZM is third overall in S, and first in NA. But the chief protagonist here should worry more about why he's almost 500 Qs behind K1TO before figuring out how to beat Jeff... So, is the problem the unfairness of Canada's increased freedom, or a vendetta against Jeff?
>
> Meanwhile, another protagonist in this conversation was almost 4,000 Qs out of contention...
>
> In all categories in W/VE, only one Canadian shows up in Top 10, two in Top 20 and after VY2TT's 12th place, the next station with an insurmountable, unfair advantage is XL3A, in 29th place.
>
> Oooh, be still my beating heart!
>
> 73, kelly
> ve4xt
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "W0MU Mike Fatchett" <w0mu at w0mu.com>
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 9:52:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Open Letter to VE Contesters
>
> 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,
>>
>>    
>>
>> 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
>>
>>    
>>
>>    
>>
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