[TRLog] A Little Perspective, Maybe

[Bob Wruble]

HERE HERE.....DE W7GG......

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> From: Pete Smith <n4zr@dayton.akorn.net>
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com; trlog@contesting.com; dx@ve7tcp.ampr.org
> Subject: [TRLog] A Little Perspective, Maybe
> Date: Tuesday, February 25, 1997 4:44 PM
> 
> Y'know, in all the furor of the last couple of weeks involving the
> management of one of these reflectors, I think we've forgotten an essential
> fact.
> 
> This is a HOBBY, not just for us, but for the people who run, and often
> personally finance, these critical communications media for DXers and
> contesters.  Yet over the last year or so, each of these people has gone
> through a major job change.  I'm sure that if we stop to think about it,
> there's little in each of our own lives that is more traumatic, whether
> it's a move to something better, a move out of a bad situation, or the
> "rightsizing" of the 90's.
> 
> Yet in each case, there has been either no interruption, or the most
> minimal interruption, in the service that we all take for granted.  The
> reflectors go on, and of course the people do too, but would we have had
> any basis to complain if Tree, or Trey, or Lyndon had said, "Hey, guys, I
> just have too much on my plate right now.  The reflector (or the software,
> or whatever) has to wait."?    I don't think so.
> 
> And thanks are in order, too, to the guys who have pitched in to help when
> the lifeline of one, or another reflector was threatened.  Bill, thanks for
> taking up so much of the slack.  Also to Jim, and Lee, and the others whose
> names I've forgotten to mention in this message.
> 
> So I'd suggest that we each be grateful for the benefits that these guys
> are providing us, out of their own pockets and their precious free time.
> And if donations are needed to keep things going, let's pitch in.  It's the
> least WE can do, in the light of how much THEY are doing for us!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 73, Pete Smith N4ZR
> n4zr@contesting.com 
> West (bigawd) Virginia
> 
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