Topband: ARRL LOTW and More

[George Dubovsky]

It's a contest - I don't care if I miss KP4 and KP2 as long as everyone
else does too!

73,

geo - n4ua

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Herb Schoenbohm <herbs at vitelcom.net> wrote:

>   I guess if I do as you suggested then next time stations will not only
> miss KP4 which did not show this time but also KP2.  So about working ARRL
> sections and as some insist that it is only a 160 meter version of
> Sweepstakes, then let it be so and like in the much highly enshrined SS not
> permit *any* DX.  Working DX on 160, not some archaic sections is what I am
> interest in.  If participants were tuned into working DX you would not find
> the band covered by 100's of incessant CQ machines every few hertz trying
> to hold on to there spot and not working much of anything.  I think next
> time I will do what I wanted to do this time, just work DX and have my
> phased Beverages on Europe and Africa selected.
> Some may say this is poor sportsmanship....but I have tried to get someone
> to recognize that changes are important to bring out a better contest
> product.  I understand those in their ivy covered office buildings and who
> call the shots, really don't care to even entertain change for the better.
>
>
> Herb, KV4FZ
>
>
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