[VHFcontesting] ARRL VHF Test 3 Band Category - long rant better delete!!

[alex at kr1st.com]

Hi Herb,

I agree. These contests have been minimized in significance (cheapened?) 
to a level that they cannot be seriously considered competitive events 
anyway. I call them activity weekends. They are basically "everything 
goes" events now with a few rules sprinkled in to make it look like a 
contest. Heck, everyone can now print their own participation award and 
look like a winner, and QST prints maybe a whole page about it if you're 
lucky.

Unless the ARRL indicates a willingness to seriously look at VHF 
contests to turn them into (dare I say "fun") contests again, it is 
useless to even discuss the rules. You've seen in a recent article that 
they look at the (logging) data only in terms of participation. The 
competitive element of a contest is secondary, if that even. Whenever 
you see data presented in a way to defend the status quo, you know that 
that is where the discussion ends. We vent a little on a lists like 
these and then the dust settles, until the next event. Rinse and repeat. 
:)

73,
--Alex KR1ST

On 2021-01-19 08:56, Herb Krumich via VHFcontesting wrote:
> Jeff your spot onThis theory of everyone wanting a trophy is a
> jokeActually deters hams from making improvements in their
> station Stay SafeHerb at WA2FGK
>     On Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 12:22:50 AM EST, Jeff Kabel
> <kabelj at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>  I think that there are too many categories in the VHF contest. It 
> makes it
> too easy to pick a category that doesn't have any competition and win,
> which doesn't seem that fun. I'd rather have a middle of the pack score
> than win without putting any effort in.