[UK-CONTEST] RadCom letters

[Christopher Plummer]

Dave et al.,
 
I would definitely say that the RSGB is not unbiased.  They do NOT represent the UK amateur fraternity impartially.
 
Apart from the furore about HF contesting and clogging up the bands by allowing a one sided letters column, in recent months they have published a vitreolic article attacking the sport of Direction Finding as it has been run on summer sunday afternoons for well over 60 years.  The editor has not allowed any rebutal of the scathing claims contained in the article and has not to date given any column inches for a letter top balance the scales.
 
Therefore does anyone on this reflector actually expect the RSGB to redress the balance for contesters?
 
Chris
 

> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 13:25:54 +0100
> From: davekh at gmail.com
> To: UK-CONTEST at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] RadCom letters
> 
> I would like to see the RSGB (whom claim to represent amateurs in the UK) be
> some kind of arbiter in this and not APPEAR let one side or other use
> RADCOM as a means to cause one (popular) element of the interest to be seen
> in a very negative light regularly. (doesn't help the hobby to set one part
> of it against the other - a 'no-brainer' there!).
> 
> Could someone analyse the list of dates of a years contesting? To then
> (hopefully!) nail this idea to the ground that somehow contests are the
> destroyer of amateur radio?
> 
> The idea of contesting could be used as a means to get people transmitting,
> 'Sport radio' which also could be a means to access other funds and support!
> The turnover in new licencees doesn't seem to equate into new users on the
> many frequencies we have (I maybe wrong). Keying that mike thinking that all
> the locals or trainer might be waiting to tell you off is all the more scary
> than perhaps starting in a digimode contest or cw/ssb contest the activity
> is repetitive and simple once rules are read and understood. When we've got
> people actually transmitting, it's easier to get them talking on air in
> none-contest situations, helping make sure we don't lose freqs. It's all a
> bit like, the lack of motorway driving in the driving test.
> 
> Perhaps a discussion could take place at the HF convention? Thats something
> that could be organised by the RSGB for those who are a going?
> 
> I heard moans on a local repeater this morning about CW contesting stopping
> someone going on to 20m - the bare facts of how much contesting there really
> is need putting into the light then perhaps moving on.
> 
> Dave H G0CER
> 
> 
> 73s Dave H
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