[VHFcontesting] ARRL Contest Branch makes online certificates available

[Jim]

It does not bother me that mailed certificates may be a thing of the past. I get a mailed certificate in nearly every VHF contest, sometimes for things like being the 432 MHz low power winner in Ohio. Several years ago I got a certificate for the January VHF contest for being the QRP portable winner in WCF, or maybe even the entire Southeast Division, with a score of 2.

I have suggested to my division director that the ARRL adopt use of the Cabrillo CERTIFICATES:NO tag to at least let people like me opt out. But nothing had come of that.

I consider it a waste of ARRL money to spend a buck and a half to mail me such a certificate - money that would be much better spent on RFI, spectrum defense, or a host of other more worthy items.


73  -  Jim   K8MR


> On Jul 12, 2018, at 11:00 AM, Peter Laws <plaws0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 8:15 AM, Alex <alex at kr1st.com> wrote:
>> Hi Bart,
>> 
>> Does this mean that there will be no more mailed certificates in the future?
> 
> That's how I read it.  Plus a further watering down of the "value" of
> a certificate by awarding more of them.  I assume that soon any
> entrant will be awarded a certificate in some category (SOLP, Icom
> 746Pro, dipole antenna).  This is not unlike ARRL's theory of
> licensing - make the test very easy and give all privileges to those
> that pass.
> 
> Next up:  3D printed plaques.
> 
> 
> 
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