Probably also very disconcerting for many of those coming from a V/UHF background, with recently obtained HF privileges, who just want to have a meaningful QSO.
73 de Dennis KD7CAC Scottsdale, AZ On Apr 30, 2014, at 5:53 AM, AG0N-3055 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 06:49:18 -0500, Kevin Stover wrote: > >> Maybe if the big contest guns did the same we wouldn't have the visceral >> anti-contest attitudes displayed, and get more people involved. > > You're talking to one of the anti crowd. It has nothing to do with > speed. It has to do with the fact that most of us don't like the chaos > of contests, and the fact that for some reason, people seem to think > there needs to be some sort of contest every damned weekend. Boy do I > relish the old days where there were less than a hand full of contests a > year. The two main ones were Field Day and Sweepstakes. If you were > into DX, there was the annual DX contest. > > Contests were something SPECIAL those days, and even I took part in > them. They were fun because they were special. These days, there's > nothing special at all about them. You can't even get a meaningful > signal report now. Your 5NN, but would you repeat because you're too > weak to copy. They are just another boring noisy weekend when you can't > enjoy the bands. > > Gary > -- > http://ag0n.net > 3055: http://ag0n.net/irlp/3055 > NodeOp Help Page: http://ag0n.net/irlp ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
