[VHFcontesting] Speed Racer Lunch Boxes

[frank bechdoldt]

Ok if Wayne is such a great guy to the ham community, why doesn’t he rent, lease or just plain lend his “million dollar” base station to newbies to win the ARRL HF sweepstakes.
 
Oh I know why. He can’t possibly build enough hf stations and lend them out to work him and his team almost exclusively to win under the rules of other ARRL contests.
 
Why can’t we get the rules changed where he can’t manipulate a win by creating and loaning out several lunch boxes. Oh I know why, he’s on the committee.
 
The Illinois gov. never did anything wrong either.
 
He may hand a FMer a lunch box and help them win an award. But when the FMer goes home with no gear, how is it better for the community as a whole?  IE you can teach a man to fish or you can give them a fish, or an award on a silver platter. 
 
The way the ARRL is handling these lunch box stations is insulting to those of us who go out there and try to work as many home stations as possible.  That was the original intent of roving. It is now twisted by a bunch of people who can fit stations into an incredible hulk or Barbie Lunch box and arrange contacts across farmers fields and enter in the beginning class on bands no beginner ever has. Well unless your friends with Wayne and willing to inflate his score.
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