It seems to me that hams are voting on that topic through their activity. The bands are pretty dead, relatively speaking, when there is not a DXpedition or contest running. I'd love to see an SDR-type application that records the total spectrum usage over the course of a year and correlates that to contest activity, but I'll bet the difference is astounding.
As others have stated, there is ... or should be ... room in our hobby for all operating preferences, but if you want to drag the public benefit into the picture I'd offer the opinion that crisp operating practices learned in contesting beat casual roundtable chats with friends hands down. Dave AB7E On 2/20/2012 12:25 AM, John Ragle wrote: > Prompted by some of the comments about contests and complaints under > this topic, I second this sentiment with a vengeance. As I have written > to the reflector before, I think these do not go very far toward > justifying the spectrum space that we have been given by the public, and > they mean that I simply have to shut down my HF operations when there is > a big contest weekend. (Fortunately, the VHF/UHF contests are more > neighborly.) > > John Ragle -- W1ZI > > /=====/ > > On 2/20/2012 1:34 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> As far as contests are concerned, I believe they are out of control, but >> that's >> MY opinion... > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
