[UK-CONTEST] April 2007 Radcom letters

[Chris Tran]

Hello all

April 2007 Radcom - I am disappointed to see that 3 out of 9 letters in 'The 
Last Word - Letters' are what I would consider 'anti-contest'.  The general 
attacks on Don G3XTT's calm and reasoned arguments are sad - also there 
seems to be a measure of interpretation of what has been written to suit the 
correspondent's point of view.

I have very little sympathy for those who can't seem to make the slightest 
effort to have QSOs other than on empty bands. Their attitude seems to be 
that all contests are a disruption and that contesters are deliberately 
clogging the bands up with worthless QSOs.  The reality is that in 2007 :-
1. Contesters are the most motivated group in amateur radio
2. Contesters have to have a high degree of technical expertise to be 
successful
3. Contesting has spawned many recent technical developments
4. Contesters are constantly self-evaluating and improving their operating, 
equipment and antennas
5. Contesters will persevere with operating under poor propagation 
conditions, QRM, etc.
6. A good contest station makes day-to-day DXing easy

How many of the above qualities do these correspondents to Radcom have ?

73
Chris    GM3WOJ