[UK-CONTEST] Original QRP contest - a little chuckle

[Dave Lawley]

Great stuff Dave

Now, the thing to do is to send this as a letter to Radcom. Then, if the 
Editor publishes it my suspicion of anti-contest bias in the Radcom 
office will be shown to be be unfounded...

HNY, Dave G4BUO

Dave Sergeant wrote:
>  
> I had the receiver running around 7030 this afternoon (nothing else 
> of interest on the bands...) and found myself listening to a G 
> station in QRP. I heard him say 'now QRT,  QRM from a contest, 
> another QRP weekend ruined by QRO...'.
> 
> Of course if he had done his homework he would have realised this was 
> the Original QRP contest 
> (http://www.qrpcc.de/contestrules/index.html) with very few of the 
> entrants running more than 5W and some even lower. Pity he was 
> blaming his own friends....
> 
> I used to sympathise with the views of the anti-contesters but it has 
> all got a bit silly now, with loads of blatently untrue accusations 
> being made. They have even been trying to sabotage the Wikipedia 
> Contesting article.
> 
> Anyway, just put a few contest QSOs in the log...
> 
> 73 Dave G3YMC
> 
> http://www.davesergeant.com