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

[G3SJJ]

Dave, clear your shack (!) then get one of those old BBC cameras on 
wheels (G3WVG probably did his apprenticeship on them,) stick a test 
card above the rig and you will command at least one page a month in Radcom.

I like the YMC story, nice one!

HNY Chris G3SJJ


Dave Lawley wrote:
> 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
>>     
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