[Mldxcc] We Won the Gavel!

[Jeff Stai]

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Chris Tate - N6WM <ctate at ewnetinc.com>
wrote:

> The article was written by several members of a club that suffered a
> narrow defeat for the small club gavel. (bad idea).  It would have been
> much more reasonable to have it written by a more objective author.
>

So just for the record, if the NCCC had just missed getting the RTTY
Roundup gavel, I would have written objectively and congratulated the
victors - and perhaps a small dose of good natured sour grapes. I wouldn't
expect the folks writing the two SS articles to do any less.**

That said, I don't actuall know who wrote the part about the club
competition. It just says "Contest Branch". The article writers for SS
phone and CW don't do it.

The harshest thing I can say about what they did write is that it was lazy,
and even then I know they work hard and using that word seems unfair. The
online version can be infinitely long, and throwing a couple sentences to
say something nice about Medium and Local costs them only free bits. I
think they just didn't think about it. Instead they beat the drum on
participation, and used PVRC as a handy and familiar example.

So, I sent them a reminder... 73 jeff wk6i

** I confess I do show a bias by highlighting west coast results first. ;)

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