[RTTY] U.S.A CONTEST

[Tom Moore]

I've been watching this thread.  Its a reflection of whats wrong with much 
of our society today. I'm old and running out of patience with it.  Everyone 
seems to want to quickly blame the contest rules, or something/somebody else 
when, 99 times out of a hundred, its their own fault. They're simply too 
dang lazy to go READ the rules in their entirety.  Honestly folks, this is 
basic 5th grade stuff. READ THE RULES. I understand. There's always the 
possibility of the unexplained exception.  But when its CLEARLY in the RULES 
or DIRECTIONS, there's really no excuse except PURE LAZINESS. Check and 
re-check before you open mouth and insert foot! I come from the 'common 
sense' responsible generation where one who wants to play in a contest 
spends at least some time STUDYING the rules BEFORE the contest. If I missed 
something and complained about it afterwards and someone showed me the 
answer was there all along, I'd really be super embarassed with egg all over 
my face. I'm not sorry. If you want to play w/o reading/studying the rules 
FIRST then get upset because you feel jilted or left out because you think 
the rules weren't right or whatever, I really can't find it in me to feel 
any sympathy for you nor do I care one wit whether you play again or not. 
And don't even think "this ain't fair, you're not a good elmer". BULL! I'll 
show you and help you, but I sure as *&^% ain't gonna do it for you. "You 
can lead them to the water but you can't make'em drink"! There. Got that off 
my chest. I need a cup of coffee and a donut. And now I expect I'm gonna 
hear all about why my attitude is whats wrong with amateur radio today.

let the flames roll.

Tom WX4TM


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Preston" <jpreston1 at cox.net>
To: <rtty at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 7:48 AM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] U.S.A CONTEST


> From the NAQP Rules:
>
> 3. North American Station: Defined by the ARRL's DXCC list with the
> addition of KH6.
>
> 73,
>
> Jim N6VH
>
>
> Phil Snyder wrote:
>> Well I do stand corrected. I new the ARRL had a country list, probably
>> more than one lingering around in it's web page, I just never really
>> looked at it, at least very closely. Maybe a statement in the rules then
>> that it is NA countries as defined by the ARRL DXCC list. Not trying to
>> be a pain, just trying to keep folks from chasing people from the 
>> contest.
>>
>> Phil
>> N9LAH
>>
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