[VHFcontesting] Why we participate

[George Fremin III]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 02:48:51PM -0400, Lee Scott - AA1YN wrote:
> 
> On a brighter note, it looks like the League got what they were asking for 
> - more participation. In June 2002, there were 672 entrants in the 
> contest.  This year it looks like we'll have to wait an additional month 
> for the official scores as there were 824 entrants,
> 
> Why such an increase in participation? ( I know this is bound to start 
> another lengthily conversation)

There was some great Es during the first day of the contest. 
As a result there were alot of contacts made.
 
More folks making more contacts - might lead them to submit a log
with 100's of contacts in it when they might not submit a log 
with 10's of contacts.

-- 
George Fremin III - K5TR
geoiii at kkn.net
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr