I haven't seen the article, but we had conversation with K1ND at the NE VHF
Conference.
ARRL counts heads and they are saying that contesters are in minority, small
percentage, so they can't justify giving us pages of QST with contest results,
etc.
They are not looking at the purchasing power, advertising towards contesters.
If I was Joe Humm, I would be dead ham by now, lost interest, threw away my
2m belt hand and not reading any magazines (who needs it to push PTT?) By
because I am Yuri da Contester, I keep buying expensive radios, putting up big
antennas, and yes sometimes buying those fancy ICOMs. Over 48 years I outspend
Joe
2mHammer 10 to 30 or more times. I am not even talking about them "horrible"
multi-multies that have 10 - 20 rigs in their operating rooms. Just look at
the raging debate about "outrageous" IC7800 price and how come "stupid" hams
are
buying it. (Comments like: I can have three Orions, 50 hand helds, ... for
that money :-)
So looks to me like ARRL is penny smart, 7800 foolish. I am supporting
(still) ARRL out of "patriotism" and not because I am dying to see another
color
picture of portable setup in the Fieldaya. Those 30,000 contesters in one
contest
sure deserve more coverage and record of their achievements for the future
generations.
Yuri, www.K3BU.us
www.computeradio.us - home of "Dream Radio One"
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