[UK-CONTEST] RadCom letters

[Roger Western]

A couple of years ago I had a short letter published in 'The Last Word' 
suggesting that the vociferous anti-contest minority should make way for the 
huge numbers of contesters and that RadCom should no longer waste it's 
precious column inches on this sterile debate. The Editor added a note 
agreeing and saying that this conversation was now closed. Maybe she has a 
short memory! Anyway, an alternative tactic might be to flood her with 
letters extolling the virtues of contesting. Otherwise that vocal minority 
overly influences RSGB opinion and we are the silent majority. Moaning on 
this reflector is preaching to the converted. I've heard it said that 
contesting is one reason given for members resigning their RSGB membership. 
Pah! Resigning is a really positive step to take, innit!
73 de Roger/G3SXW.



-----Original Message----- 
From: Tom GM4FDM
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 5:46 PM
To: uk-contest at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] RadCom letters

One man's meat is another man's poison........ you are correct Chris -
contesters will never win!


Tom
GM4FDM



On 22/07/2011 17:40, Chris Tran GM3WOJ wrote:
> Hello all
>
> These letters to RadCom from the anti-contest brigade are, in a word,
> tedious. They demonstrate complete ignorance of what is involved in 
> setting
> up even a modest contest station. They also seem to lack any clarity as to
> what it is they are actually wanting - is it completely empty bands which
> they can use at any time of their choosing ?
>
> The letter writers also are blind to the fact that contesting is the
> ultimate 'self-training', stimulates a lot of band activity, makes rare 
> DXCC
> entities available and that many technological innovations are a result of
> contesting.
>
> Quoting from one of this month's letters "The WARC bands were almost dead 
> as
> far as I was concerned, CW wasn't so good either, so like Bill I just
> switched off!" - hmmm, this doesn't make sense.
>
> Let's hope these letters fizzle out - as contesters it is tempting to 
> reply
> correcting their misconceptions, but I have a feeling we'll just add fuel 
> to
> the flames.
>
> 73
> Chris
> GM3WOJ
>
> * GM7V EU-010 in IOTA *
>
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