I am not presently an ARRL member, although I have been one for a good part
of my 40+ year ham tenure. Throughout that time, ARRL has continually
mentioned extreme QRM conditions on the HF bands, for one reason or another.
It seems to me that any organization dedicated to the betterment of amateur
radio would do whatever possible to alleviate such QRM. Therefore, it is
logical that ARRL immediately cease having contests on bands that are
already overcrowded and, if the amateur community wants contests, only allow
such on bands with enough open frequencies to accomodate such (that is
probably only those above 28MHz). Anything else would be irresponsible, as
would any extended publication of articles in non-radio areas of technology.
Geoff WA2GFP
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Subject: [Mw] Re: [VHFcontesting] Re: [CQ-Contest] Too many contests?
While we are at it, lets eliminate the 10 meter
contest-same reason as the 160 contest, the november
sweepstakes (unfair to dx stations), the Jan VHF
contest (usually terrible propogation) the sept VHF
contest (no e skip on 6) the IARU HF contest (poor
propogation in July), and both DX contests (The
scoring system is unfair-dx stations only get 60 mults
per band while the US/VE can get over 300 per band).
Also SKN uses an outdated and worthless mode (CW, the
FCC said so).
So this way we will have lots of extra space in QST
for another article on Packet, or the International
Space Station talking to another school. Does the ISS
ever talk to individuals?
73s John NE0P
--- Bob Johnson <rjohnson@tmlp.com> wrote:
> OK Guys:
> If Randy didn't miss any of your favorite contests,
> just let the League know
> !!!
>
> They are proposing to cut "Contest Coverage" in QST
> for ARRL sponsored
> contests
> at this weekends Board (Rubber Stamp) Meeting !!!
>
> Also possible is a "Web Based" QST vs Paper, this
> has not been confirmed
> except
> by inference by some ARRL Board Members.
>
> You, as an active VHF'er should be able to look back
> and see what we have lost
> thanks to the BOD.
> - Elimination of the VUAC (VHF/UHF Activities
> Coordinating) committee.
> - Elimination of the "Spring Sprints" for VHF/UHF.
> - Severe cut backs in the space for "The World Above
> 50 MHz".
> - Severe cut backs in the reporting VUCC status.
> - Severe cut backs in the reporting of VHF/UHF
> Standings.
>
> I urge ALL of you that are ARRL members that have
> "Web Access" to let the rest
> of the membership without Web Access know what is
> afoot !!!
>
> I also urge everyone to contact their ARRL Board
> Member and let them know what
> you think of these "Cost Cutting Schemes" !!!
>
> After checking the ARRL Web Page today, The new
> webmaster is stating that we
> are spending about $100K to have color vs Black &
> white !!! I could live with
> B&W if we could keep ALL coverage we HAD in QST !!!
>
> I also did a quick check this weekend and found that
> there was an average of 8
> FULL COLOR pages in each issue devoted to
> advertising ARRL publications (high
> was 12, low was 5). These figures did not include
> any of the partial page
> ARRL
> ads or " ARRL Help Wanted" ads (lots of them month
> after month with no takers,
> so it seems)!!! This amounts to about 5% of the
> pages of QST advertising ARRL
> related publications and accessories.
>
> Seeing that the ARRL publishes a Bi-annual booklet
> called "ARRL Publications",
> it seems to me that it could be sent out to ARRL
> members 2 to 4 times a
> year in
> a special mailing utilizing the good old plastic
> mailing envelope (you old
> timers remember when QST was so GOOD it was WORTH
> the plastic wrapper to
> protect it) !!!
>
> Many of the technical publications I receive still
> come in these plastic
> envelopes and they utilize then to include special
> publication or catalogs
> from
> some of there advertisers (at an ADDITIONAL FEE, I'm
> sure). I think the
> League
> should take note of this if they truly want to cut
> costs !!!
>
>
> Back in 1976 the QST format was changed from 6.5" x
> 9.5" to 8.25" x 10.75",
> yielding about a 43% increase in page area. If we
> went back to the old type
> style and font size, I'm sure we could easily get
> 30% more subject coverage
> per
> page.
>
> I don't need COLOR
> I don't need LARGE type and WIDE margins
> I don't need the SAME old ARRL Publication
> advertising in EVERY issue
> I don't need a "Web Based" publication
>
> What I do need is a publication that old H.P.Maxim
> would be proud of, not the
> stuff and fluff that is being proposed !!!
>
> TNX es 73
> Bob, K1VU
>
>
> At 07:38 AM 01/14/02 , Randy Thompson, K5ZD wrote:
> >
> >Maybe we are looking at this cost cutting the wrong
> way. Perhaps the ARRL
> >sponsors too many contests and the answer should be
> to eliminate some of
> >them. The concept of an EME contest is pretty cool
> - but I doubt it will
> >ever be a mainstream amateur radio operating
> activity. Do we really need an
> >ARRL 160m contest? Or a UHF contest in addition to
> the VHF contests?
> >
> >Something to think about.
> >
> >
> >Randy Thompson, K5ZD
> >E-mail k5zd@contesting.com
> >Web: <http://www.k5zd.com/>http://www.k5zd.com
> >
> >
> >--
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>
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> >
>
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