Fw: [VHFcontesting] With all due respect... [was:Increasing submittedlogs]

GeoffK gkrauss at stny.rr.com
Tue Apr 22 23:37:17 EDT 2003


----- Original Message -----
From: "GeoffK" <gkrauss at stny.rr.com>
To: "Ev Tupis (W2EV)" <w2ev at arrl.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] With all due respect... [was:Increasing
submittedlogs]


>
> >The only indicator Newington has is
> > the number of logs they get per contest.  The ARRL has no idea >how many
> people
> > operate in each contest, they only data they gather is the number
> > of logs they
> > receive.
>
> Excuse me for being a bit cynical, but ... maybe what the ARRL cares about
> is not the number of actual participants but the number of logs THEY
receive
> and can put in their write-up? Ask yourself:  what would they do if the
> number of participants doubled but the number of logs stayed the same? or
if
> the logs fell to one-half of what they get now? Could the info be skewed
for
> other purposes?
> What, if anything, does the Board/DIrectors say about the situation?
> Geoff WA2GFP
>




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