On 12/8/2011 8:22 AM, Eddy Swynar wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> If each& every one of the contributors (and there are many!) to this thread
> about the 160-meter contest was to take pen& paper in hand& actually WRITE
> to his/her representative on the ARRL Contest Committee---with a "cc" to the
> committee chairman---I'm sure the numbers alone would make them sit up&
> listen...
>
Eddy, I have been sending them (ARRL CAC) e mails for the last decade
and only a few have replied with "we will look into it" but that is
about it. There is something about the ARRL that they go into a bunker
mode mindset when even friendly suggestions are made to improve on
obvious structural contest mistakes. I am a member of the ARRL and that
membership should at least allow access to the CAC. I wish their
meetings would be transparent and we could present arguments in writing
on agenda issues. IMHO that is the way an open organization is supposed
to work. Again after 10 years of writing on this I have no idea if the
matter of correcting the ARRL 160 meter contest problems was even
discussed or voted on. In their January 2011 Annual Report the CAC did
mention that improvements to the ARRL International DX Contest, "upon
instructions from the PSC" (whatever that is) " by tasking the CAC to
review the rules for possible improvement."
I have no idea why the PSC (Programs and Service Committee) is another
level of bureacracy needed to improve contests except that the PSC is
made up entirely of ARRL Directors and ARRL staff. If it is true that
the PSC "instructs" the CAC then the PSC needs to be informed of the
obvious deficiency of the ARRL 160 Meter DX Contest.
I will keep trying to contact CAC members but I don't hold out much hope
they will even deal with this. And as they don't more and more Top Band
regulars are deciding like myself not to participate anymore until they
at least realize the issues on this contest are value ones to consider.
73,
Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
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