[VHFcontesting] ARRL rules and no exit interviews

[frank bechdoldt]

Jim said not to send in a blank log, write a letter to my reps.

 

 

Sorry I tried that, the PSC ignored the VUAC recommendations and my VUAC member that represents this area quit. I have written letters to these individuals for 5 years. Believe me my VUAC knew where I stood and tried to fix some of these issues.

 

The only thing that’s bringing back to roving is fixing the rules or someone beating my best score while not acting as part of a team convoy of rovers.  When this happens I will be back. Otherwise doing what I did achieves nothing when every rover in the country that beat me had a roving partner for all the free benefits you get from line of sight contacts at grid corners.

 

I hope those of you who stay home understand how this system discourages the completive non exclusive rover. This is the type of rover that gave the most benefit to the community as a whole by working everyone they can. 

 

 

The bottom line is that for VHF contests the VUAC has no authority and therefore the VUAC  system in place has no authority either.

 

The decisions are made by people we can not easily remove for making such decisions. 

 

It is not the VUAC that is hurting the contests. It’s the PSC.

 

There are 100s of people who do not compete or enter logs in this contest for various reasons. None of those reasons are ever brought forth to the ARRL to understand.

There is no exit interview.

 

There is no way to tell them why you are not participating. 

 

All of you guys who got shut out of the EME contest should take note and send an empty log to the contest branch or a letter stating why you didn’t not participate in the contest, but you were interested if things were adjusted.

 

If we do not change this system of rule making and governing our contests to one that is done on the open air the certificates are worth nothing.

 

This means opening the logs up for everyone to view as evidence of fair play and demonstration of fine operating skills.

 

I’m sorry that you think I am hurting the vhf contest community. It is not my goal.  I suppose every corrective surgery involves pain.  I realize all the home and portable stations are unaffected by the rover rules.  But what happened in the EME rules demonstrates how the politics of a few people we do not elect listening to other people appointed by division leaders but given no authority to change anything causes allot of room for personal politics to rule the day.

 

Anyone of you at home will now have to make a major jump in cost gear acreage and skill to get in an EME contest. You may never have a plan to do EME but now the path for this has been narrowed in an undemocratic process.  It is the same process that I have experienced, wrote letters to and the like. Except I believe the VUAC tried and the ARRL failed.  

 

So if my section leader doesn’t listen, the ARRL doesn’t listen a blank log and a letter will have to do. I worked the most random contacts to people in my division ever in the history of roving without using a convoy approach to inflate my score.  However the best score is held by a group of Pac rovers that mainly worked each other.   I feel that what I did achieved more for the community as a whole. Unfortunately the vhf community is failing rovers like me in giving me a fair place to compete.  

 

Please don't imply I am hurting the comunity. I am trying to fix something I care about before I just give it up.  If the vhf comunity really thinks the traditional rovers should be rewarded by who can form the biggest convoy of gear filled vehicles working each other member of thier convoy for 98 percent of thier QSOs then I guess rovers like me will not be missed.

 

 

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