Topband: Well, Duh... (Apology re: ARRL160)

[Jim Brown]

This entire discussion strikes me as comical. I can recall several quite 
extensive discussions about the DX Window, and most of them have come to 
a consensus that that the DX window on topband was dead and buried. I 
haven't bothered to check the archives, but if I did, I'll bet that I've 
find that at least some of those speaking out so strongly in favor it it 
now said exactly the opposite back then.

Another comical point -- everything written at HQ seems to be handed 
down from on high as chiseled into stone.  How else to explain a rule 
for this contest that flies in the face of the CAC's recommendations 
from four years ago?  Or does it mean that nothing that members say 
matters, and that nothing can ever change.

73, Jim K9YC

On 12/13/2013 4:52 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
> [1] Actually June, 2009, yes they did vote to drop it, and it was the ARRL
> Contest Advisory Committee. See:
>
>
> http://www.arrl.org/files/file/About%20ARRL/Committee%20Reports/July/29_Contest_Advisory_Committee.pdf
>
> An interesting read.
>
> Should note that the report phrases the current rule as a "recommendation",
> as if to indicate they don't consider it a hard rule, and*nobody*  voted to
> make it a "requirement". They consider the rule unenforceable. From the
> report:
>
> "4. Vote: Rule 6.1
>   A. Delete (9)
>   B. Make it a requirement (0)
>   C. Leave it as a recommendation (7)"