[VHFcontesting] We have a Situation here....

[Alan Larson]

Peter Laws <plaws0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Um.  No.  Nothing else in amateur radio is "idiot-proofed" why a
> particular piece of software?  If an op is education-proof which,
> granted, is a growing problem generally not just in radio, then just
> don't work them..  Or work them and don't log them.  If they ask why
> you didn't upload to LOTW (or whatever), tell them.

  Being a bit of a grump about such things, this was my first thought
when I read of the issue.  After thinking about it a bit, I realized
that the problem is that there may be more folks with a HF+6M radio
that treat it as 20 meters than there are VHF+ folks on the band
now.  VHFers may ignore them, but they will keep on working each
other, ignoring us.

  This is a general problem with over rapid assimilation of folks
from a different culture.

  By the way, I really enjoyed your term "education-proof".

        Alan