On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 05:01:27PM -0500, Les Rayburn wrote:
> My point is that being active in one VHF contest per year, or even fewer
> hardly compares to the contributions of some on the other side of this
> debate. The opposition to some form of an assisted category is
> passionate and vocal, but most of that seems to come from people who are
> not otherwise active.
I am sorry that I am not active enough for you to think my experience
and views matter.
The other VHF contests of the year are much harder for me to carve out
a weekend for - between kids and other non radio activities I can not
do those contests very often. But I do really enjoy operating the
VHF/UHF bands. And on a cost per QSO basis my ham radio budget is
very skewed on the bands above 50 mhz. I spend more time thinking
about how to make my VHF station better than I do about HF. If I only
had the funds to do it - I know I could build an amazing station.
> If you study the history of the VHF bands, you'll find that prearranged
> schedules during both contests and everyday operation are nothing new.
I know this history.
> with success to coordinate contacts. Some of the most competitive
> stations invest a good deal of time in arranging skeds prior to
> contests, and trying to drum up activity.
I am saying that it is possible to turn in contest scores without
doing these things. It is even possible to have fun doing
the contests without these things.
> The problem with repeating a falsehood over and over is that it becomes
> accepted as truth. Especially if it comes from someone who is respected.
Please tell me where I have stated something that is false.
I will be glad to be corrected if I made a false statement or
if I have said something that is wrong due to not understanding
the facts.
> post announcements of digital operation. It is not to allow someone to
> "call CQ" on the Intenet. That is a distortion of the proposal, designed
> to encite an emotiional response.
No, the reason I called it a CQ is to show that it is indeed
a solicitation (just a like a CQ on the radio) for contacts.
I think it is important to make that clear. One of the problems
with this topic is that we throw around terms like "spots" "spotting"
"announcements" and the like but I am not sure that everyone is on
the same page as to what those mean.
Is an "announcement" made one time before the contest - like we see
on this list that I going to be on in the contest doing X?
Or is is "announcing" every 5 seconds in some chat room or many
chat rooms or on the DX spotting system that I am on XX freq
now?
I wanted to point out that the "announcements" that K5QE is talking
about are of the very frequent "I am calling on XX freq" type.
And when I thought about it - I realized that it was really
pretty much like calling CQ. And if that is what most people
want to happen during VHF contests. Then I guess we should do
it but they need to understand what it is they are supporting.
>
> We have practical experience with Marshall's proposal in both the CQ VHF
> and SVHFS Sprints. In both cases, nothing horrible happened. Crisis
> averted. Earth saved.
Great.
I will again say that not all contests have the have the same rules.
I think it is great that contests are not all the same - don't have
the same conditions etc.
--
George Fremin III - K5TR
geoiii@kkn.net
http://www.kkn.net/~k5tr
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