Hi Herb,
I agree. These contests have been minimized in significance (cheapened?)
to a level that they cannot be seriously considered competitive events
anyway. I call them activity weekends. They are basically "everything
goes" events now with a few rules sprinkled in to make it look like a
contest. Heck, everyone can now print their own participation award and
look like a winner, and QST prints maybe a whole page about it if you're
lucky.
Unless the ARRL indicates a willingness to seriously look at VHF
contests to turn them into (dare I say "fun") contests again, it is
useless to even discuss the rules. You've seen in a recent article that
they look at the (logging) data only in terms of participation. The
competitive element of a contest is secondary, if that even. Whenever
you see data presented in a way to defend the status quo, you know that
that is where the discussion ends. We vent a little on a lists like
these and then the dust settles, until the next event. Rinse and repeat.
:)
73,
--Alex KR1ST
On 2021-01-19 08:56, Herb Krumich via VHFcontesting wrote:
Jeff your spot onThis theory of everyone wanting a trophy is a
jokeActually deters hams from making improvements in their
station Stay SafeHerb at WA2FGK
On Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 12:22:50 AM EST, Jeff Kabel
<kabelj@gmail.com> wrote:
I think that there are too many categories in the VHF contest. It
makes it
too easy to pick a category that doesn't have any competition and win,
which doesn't seem that fun. I'd rather have a middle of the pack score
than win without putting any effort in.
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