Everybody is entitled to an opinion. That's mine.
John Maxwell
N0WBW
-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth E. Harker [mailto:kharker@cs.utexas.edu]
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 6:53 AM
To: John Maxwell
Cc: vhfcontesting@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Comments on proposed VHF+ rules changes
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 09:15:40PM -0700, John Maxwell wrote:
> I certainly don't consider that well publicized. I read it, but how
> many
> others did. That's how I heard about it. 10 days notice isn't much
notice
> to stir up responses. Seeing how we get about 500QSOs on average from
a
> VHF contest in our area, you see the issue. Not many folks to talk to
here.
So, here is how well the request for input was distributed:
* Sent to the VHF Contesting email reflector (100s of subscribers)
* Sent to the CQ-Contest email reflector (1,000s of subscribers)
* Published in the ARRL Rate Sheet (> 10,000 subscribers)
* Published Feb. 26 on the ARRLWeb as a featured article on the front
page.
* Republished to many, many club email reflectors, newsletters, etc.
How difficult is it to file a reply? Anyone who cannot figure out how to
send email to vhf-contest-proposal@arrl.org is almost certainly not
entering the VHF contests anyway. Of the 500 QSOs you make in the
contest, of the stations you work who actually enter the contests, I
doubt very many of them have not heard of the proposed changes.
I could understand being a little annoyed at the short comment period,
but saying that the issue was poorly publicized or is difficult to
respond
to is disingenuous.
> John Maxwell
> N0WBW
>
>
> At 08:54 PM 3/7/2004 -0600, Kenneth E. Harker wrote:
> >On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 10:13:41AM -0700, John Maxwell wrote:
> >> Dear Committee et al,
> >>
> >> Well, it seems that your rule change will badly affect our ability
> >> to have any kind of score for the VHF contest as well as our desire
> >> to run any VHF or microwave contest. Not to mention that I feel
> >> that your method of comment and timing of the required responses
> >> seems to be very short and difficult. (Not very well publicized.)
> >
> >Not very well publicized? The (long, detailed) request for input was
> >included in the ARRL Rate Sheet weekly email newsletter last week.
> >Over 10,000 hams received it - far more hams than ever make QSOs in
> >the ARRL VHF contests.
> >
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> >Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto"
> >kharker@cs.utexas.edu
> >University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio
Callsign:
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> >Department of the Computer Sciences Central Texas DX &
Contest
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Kenneth E. Harker "Vox Clamantis in Deserto"
kharker@cs.utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsign:
WM5R
Department of the Computer Sciences Central Texas DX & Contest
Club
Taylor Hall TAY 2.124 Maintainer of Linux on
Laptops
Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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