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Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL DX CW Contest in QST

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] ARRL DX CW Contest in QST
From: David Gilbert <xdavid@cis-broadband.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 12:18:41 -0700
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Well, N6WM did the QST writeup and he hasn't been a very active contester so maybe he just didn't have much to say.  I could only find two ARRL contests over the last year where he even submitted a log.  The QST article says "full results" for the 2019 phone contest can be found online, but the link is empty and just says that something will be forthcoming.

So yeah ... pretty sad.  I seem to remember not that long ago somebody from the ARRL saying they were going to rejuvenate their contesting coverage in QST, but that clearly hasn't been the case.

Has anyone ever charted RBN activity over the course of a year ... with an overlay for major contest dates ... and sent the results to the ARRL?  An even better approach might be to set up a permanent multi-band SDR that simply records wideband energy density over time.

73,
Dave   AB7E



On Aug 25, 2019, at 6:57 PM, Edward Sawyer <EdwardS@sbelectronics.com> wrote:

I am not sure if anyone else was struck like I was as to how sad it was that 
QST was down to 2 pages for the ARRL DX CW coverage in the August magazine.  No 
write-up, just some top 10 totals boxes and plaque winners.

I never understood why QST dumps virtually all of its adds in the back.  It's 
an advertiser's nightmare.  Why not allow a couple of advertisers to sponsor a 
6 page spread per contest on the 2 ARRL DX contests and get their ads 
conspicuously displayed?  I am thinking they would be interested.

Ed  N1UR

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