The recent RTTY contest leads one to ponder: "Why don't we see much backlash against contests?"
By orders of magnitude, contests create more QRM than any other cause on ham radio. They commonly render multiple ham bands nearly unusable for normal communications, for several days at a time. Yet, contesters creating maximum QRM are exalted as champions and Great Operators by the ham magazines and organizations. Why is a little QRM is bad, but vast and continuous QRM is wonderful? As quite an avid (and now reformed) contester myself, I'm very curious about this phenomena. 73 Bonnie VR2/KQ6XA
