Mike, W9IP wrote:
>I have been told by several reliable sources that the June VHF contest
>was moved from its traditional 2nd-weekend time to the 1st weekend (a
>much poorer time for propagation) in order to accomodate the wishes of
>ONE person: Joel Harrison, WB5IGF, the Delta Division Director. You
>see, he found it inconvenient to have the June contest conflict with the
>ARRL convention in Dallas. Harrison even bragged about his
>"accomplishment" on the 75-meter VHF net.
>Is this outrageous or what?
I've been going back and forth with others via e-mail on this. I
agree with Mike that this is an outrage. This should never be allowed
to happen. Lots of contest groups work real hard to secure access to
certain "hard to get" sites and often the site can be reserved
only for a certain weekend. In many cases, this is not flexible.
I can't believe Joel Harrison has this kind of pull......old boy
network between him and the League, I suppose?
This is bogus.......
-Dave KM3T
>From aa2du@attmail.com (J P Kleinhaus ) Thu Jan 20 18:07:26 1994
From: aa2du@attmail.com (J P Kleinhaus ) (J P Kleinhaus )
Subject: NCJ Rebuttal
In reponse to comments made by WA6OTU and WB2EKK:
It is news to me that people regard the scoring of the ARRL DX Contest
as unfair. The ARRL has a paid staff to check contest logs as opposed to the
operation at CQ where everyone is a volunteer. If anything, that would lead me
to the conclusion that there is less opportunity for screwing up at the ARRL
because it is all done in house. The logs are not scattered around the four
corners of the country and the people performing the checking are doing their
jobs...not volunteering. Who do you think takes the responsibility more
seriously?
Mark and John both agree that a change in the reporting of the results is
overdue. While I think that we should have more regional reporting, the
creation of five Top-5 boxes is overkill. I would much rather see a National
Top-10 listing as well as three regional Top-5 boxes representing the major
time-zones in the USA for example.
I am in agreement with John that splitting the entries into separate classes of
"Competitor" and "Participant" is a real bad idea! We are trying to encourage
increased participation, not the increased perception of contesters as an
elitist clique. The creation of a caste system among our ranks will do nothing
but turn the ARRL DX Contest into a giant club meeting...you will work the same
guys on all bands within the first 24 hours and then you can shut off your
radios. This may be the answer to the
part-time contesting question that flew around here several months ago <grin>.
Let's all remember that CQ is the one that requires a paper log to be submitted
with your disk. The ARRL is perfectly happy to accept your log entry via
Internet, the ARRL BBS or by mailing in a disk. No paper is required...who is
more likely to computer check your log?
Electronic submission is the way of the future...the ARRL is trying to
implement such a program. The result will be more accurate reporting and less
chance for human error in reporting the results.
73, J.P. Kleinhaus AA2DU
ARRL Hudson Division CAC Rep.
aa2du@attmail.com (for now)
Disclaimer: This is not meant as an attack on the CQ staff...please do not
send me flameage!
>From Edward Parish <parish@Think.COM> Thu Jan 20 19:00:25 1994
From: Edward Parish <parish@Think.COM> (Edward Parish)
Subject: June VHF Contest outrage
Message-ID: <9401201900.AA12854@thor.think.com>
From: pascoe@MathWorks.COM
Mike, W9IP wrote:
>I have been told by several reliable sources that the June VHF contest
>was moved from its traditional 2nd-weekend time to the 1st weekend (a
>much poorer time for propagation) in order to accomodate the wishes of
>ONE person: Joel Harrison, WB5IGF, the Delta Division Director. You
>see, he found it inconvenient to have the June contest conflict with the
>ARRL convention in Dallas. Harrison even bragged about his
>"accomplishment" on the 75-meter VHF net.
>Is this outrageous or what?
I've been going back and forth with others via e-mail on this. I
agree with Mike that this is an outrage. This should never be allowed
to happen. Lots of contest groups work real hard to secure access to
certain "hard to get" sites and often the site can be reserved
only for a certain weekend. In many cases, this is not flexible.
I can't believe Joel Harrison has this kind of pull......old boy
network between him and the League, I suppose?
This is bogus.......
-Dave KM3T
Not to mention that it is one less week and weekend for people to assemble,
build or fix their stations after the long winter. We (W2SZ/1) are
fortunate in (hopefully) having access to our "hard to get" site, but I
know that one sizeable contest group in our area may not be able to. If
Mr. Harrison was so keen on VHF contesting, why did he allow the ARRL to
schedule the convention on the contest weekend in the first place? Did it
conflict with HAMCOM or something?
Ed WA2SCA
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