Topband: Fwd: Fwd: ARRL Board meets next week - I'm looking for input

[T R Mortimer]

"...These are individual awards.  How you get them is your business, how I get mine is my business..."

Excellent !   May I inject 39 Cents'-worth ? [allowing for inflation]

That seems to me to sum it up,  totally,  completely,  utterly,  and entirely.

There must be 75 dB (give or take a few "S" points) of difference between the poorest penny-whistle [goober-whistle] rig and those of some of the mighty contesters whose rigs rival commercial & military installations.  To worry about remote operation in view of this as rather like "straining at a gnat & swallowing a camel".

If I can get away with a set of forgeries (or even fivegeries) it's between me,  the ARRL & my conscience.  It would be like cheating at patience [solitaire].  The ARRL refused a perfectly valid card with my first DXCC application - one from a nearby EU country [entity] which I'd worked dozens of times.  I didn't ask why.  It was all free in those days last century,  so straining at gnats is nothing new.  I still need 18 on 1.8 to reach 100;  I'm not going to do it,  but I'll try.

All's fair in love and war,  love it or hate it !

73 de Mort,  SV5/G2JL