[WriteLog] Minnesota QSO Party

[S. Markowski Jr.]

"Les, VA7LC" wrote:
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> I find your reply sarcastic and condescending.

The 'Big Guns' of course don't bother with these small contests.

I don't know what you read in reference to #1, I didn't read it that
way......and I'm NO CHEERLEADER.

#2 Don't know where you get your information this statement. I know a lot of
"Big Guns" that participate in many(not all, but many) of these "small
contests"  A contest is a contest: only the rules and nature of the event
change.  The purpose: TO WIN! or meet or exceed one's personal goals.

The above of course is IMHO!
73,
Zig KM9M

>
>
> Looked to me like you are feeling guilty about this one. If you can't or
> won't keep up with the QSO Party rule changes, then remove the contest from
> the program, and let somebody who is interested write the module.
> Should I email all my requests to you personally? Why have a reflector?
> And, if you don't add them to your "to-do's list, what is the point?
>
> If you spent more time on the average Joe who is in the majority , i.e. SOLP
> (cw,ssb), than all these esoteric upgrades for multi multi's, networking,
> RTTY/MMTTY idiosyncrasies, SO2R, packet users(who don't seem to be able to
> search the bands for themselves) then we wouldn't need to post to the
> reflector.
>
> Maybe you should spend your time making a contest template for the QSO
> Parties, then we wouldn't need to bother you with our little requests.
> The 'Big Guns' of course don't bother with these small contests. They are in
> the minority (and pay the least), but who want all those fancy 'wish lists'
>
> I like the program. I WANT to use it. I paid for it. I paid to be upgraded,
> and I will probably pay to upgrade again.
> I would have sent this to you personally, but since you posted to the
> reflector on my failures, I thought the reflector should read my reply.
>
> Naturally I expect to be flamed and denigrated by the 'faithful'.
>
> No need for the 'killfile' guys, this is my last post to the reflector.
>
> Les Corris, VA7LC
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "W. Wright, W5XD" <w5xd at writelog.com>
> To: "'WriteLog Reflector'" <writelog at contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 10:06 AM
> Subject: RE: [WriteLog] Minnesota QSO Party
>
> > >
> > > I have to say I'm a little disappointed.
> > >
> > > Feb 2002 I took part in the Minnesota QSO Party. At that time
> > > I had to use a
> > > logging program by WR0DK because the WriteLog contest module
> > > for Minnesota
> > > was not up-to-date with the rules then current. Well here we
> > > are one year
> > > later and nothing has changed.
> >
> >
> > OK, guilty as charged.
> >
> > If you really want this problem fixed, you might consider the
> > timing of your requests.  Waiting until there is no time to code
> > and test the required changes before you note the problem is not
> > a recipe to end your disappointment. Yes, I should have
> > remembered to do something based on the 30 Jan 2002
> > complaints filed here by the same person last year
> > (http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/writelog/2002-January/009199.html),
> > but  I failed to add them to my list. So you behaved the same
> > this year as last year, and so did I. And the result,
> > (are we surprised?) is the same again.
> >
> > Since this is the second year, maybe it will make my
> > todo list properly. However, for small contests who's rules
> > are prone to change, I am very likely to wait until
> > next year's rules are published before doing anything,
> > as I really don't have the energy to fix the same
> > contest rules twice in the same year. So you might want
> > to "help" me remember this particular one.
> >
> > On the other hand, if your goal is to be able to post
> > well-founded complaints on the reflector, you have
> > found a reliable mechanism.
> >
> > Wayne, W5XD
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