>I drove down to the DX gathering in Visalia this weekend and it was
>worth the trip. Lotsa interesting folks to talk to and a few
>interesting presentations. I didn't go to the DX Forum except for
>the part where W6QHS talked about the future of DXing and that was
>interesting. The Contest Forum was brilliant again this year, with
>N6TV moderating a "McLaughlin Group" format panel discussion featuring
>K7SS, N6AA, K3ZO and N6TJ. The banter between N6AA and N6TJ was quite
>amusing, as always.
Let me see if I can remember some of the panel consensus opinions, since it
surely relates to some of the mail that keeps flooding my mailbox from the
contest
reflector.
1. Forget having a 24 hour category in major contests--nobody on the panel was
in
favor. But K7SS did advocate a 1/4 time category for the casual contester,
and I
don't think anybody argued against it.
2. Keep CQWW-CW where it is, and let those who want turkey all weekend just
eat
turkey. However, N6TJ made the suggestion that we should swap phone and CW
in alternate years. N6AA was, of course, opposed.
3. No agreement at all about what the effect of removing contest coverage from
QST would be, or what we should do in response to the threat. The responses
ranged all the way from "that would be the death of contesting" to "no effect".
4. Forget about establishing 28.300 to 28.350 as a contest-free zone.
5. Only N6TV would admit to spending time cooking--or at least simmering--his
logs after a contest before sending it in.
Here, my memory starts to run out. Actually, N6TV was the moderator and at
least
seemed to be taking notes. Bob, do you care to pass along your notes?
One thing Trey didn't mention was that there was discussion about starting a
May
Sprint on 40/20/15. N6TR took a poll of interest, and it looked to me like
those
assembled were in favor.
de Bruce,
AA6KX
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